search/aggregate: can I set the size (max number of buckets) to unlimited?

Question

Dear yuuvis team, I'm using the very convenient aggregate feature to find all folders with any modification within the current week. We currently have a total of less than 8.000 folders, so I might set size to 10.000 or even 100.000, but of course it would be more elegant to set it to unlimited, since that's what I really want (although in practice anything beyond 1.000 is very unlikely).

I tried

"size": -1

but that returns an error.

"size": 0

does not seem to have any effect.

What do you recommend?

BTW, the URLs in the help page are wrong, for aggregate it must be

[Gateway-URL]/search/aggregate

(The search/ part is missing.)

Answer 1

Dear Stephan,

Its’s not possible to set the number of buckets to unlimited.
The maximum number of buckets allowed in a single response is limited by a dynamic cluster setting named search.max_buckets. It defaults to 65,535, requests that try to return more than the limit will fail with an exception.

BR
Irina

Comments

OK, thanks, Irina.