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[DOCS] Clarify atomic change for alias swaps (#59154)

Small edit highlighting the fact that atomic cluster state change does not guarantee lack of errors for in-flight requests.

Co-authored-by: James Rodewig <james.rodewig@elastic.co>
Grzegorz Banasiak 5 年之前
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@@ -263,8 +263,10 @@ indices that match this pattern are added/removed.
 It is an error to index to an alias which points to more than one index.
 It is an error to index to an alias which points to more than one index.
 
 
 It is also possible to swap an index with an alias in one, atomic operation.
 It is also possible to swap an index with an alias in one, atomic operation.
-This means there will be no period of downtime where the alias points to no
-index.
+This means there will be no point in time where the alias points to no
+index in the cluster state. However, as indexing and searches involve multiple
+steps, it is possible for the in-flight or queued requests to fail
+due to a temporarily non-existent index.
 
 
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