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New in version 4.4.

setIndexCommitQuorum

Changes the minimum number of data-bearing members (i.e commit quorum), including the primary, that must complete an in-progress simultaneous index build before the primary marks those indexes as ready.

The command has the following syntax:

db.runCommand({
setIndexCommitQuorum: <string>,
indexNames: [ <document> ],
commitQuorum: <int> | <string>,
comment: <any>
})

The command takes the following parameters:

Field
Type
Description
setIndexCommitQuorum
string

The name of the collection for which the indexes are being built.

array

An array of in-progress index builds to modify. Each element of the array must be the name of the index.

The indexes specified to indexNames must be the entire set of in-progress builds associated to a given index builder, i.e. the indexes built by a single createIndexes or db.collection.createIndexes() operation.

int or string

The minimum number of data-bearing voting replica set members (i.e. commit quorum), including the primary, that must report a successful index build before the primary marks the indexes as ready. A "voting" member is any replica set member where members[n].votes is greater than 0.

Supports the following values:

  • "votingMembers" - all data-bearing voting replica set members. (Default)

  • "majority" - a simple majority of data-bearing voting replica set members.

  • <int> - a specific number of data-bearing voting replica set members. Specify an integer greater than 0.

  • A replica set tag name.

comment
any

Optional. A user-provided comment to attach to this command. Once set, this comment appears alongside records of this command in the following locations:

A comment can be any valid BSON type (string, integer, object, array, etc).

New in version 4.4.

Note

Requires featureCompatibilityVersion 4.4+

Each mongod in the replica set or sharded cluster must have featureCompatibilityVersion set to at least 4.4 to start index builds simultaneously across replica set members.

MongoDB 4.4 running featureCompatibilityVersion: "4.2" builds indexes on the primary before replicating the index build to secondaries.

Issuing setIndexCommitQuorum has no effect on index builds started with commitQuorum of 0.

Starting with MongoDB 4.4, index builds on a replica set or sharded cluster build simultaneously across all data-bearing replica set members. For sharded clusters, the index build occurs only on shards containing data for the collection being indexed. The primary requires a minimum number of data-bearing voting members (i.e commit quorum), including itself, that must complete the build before marking the index as ready for use. See Index Builds in Replicated Environments for more information.

The following operation starts an index build of two indexes:

db.getSiblingDB("examples").invoices.createIndexes(
[
{ "invoices" : 1 },
{ "fulfillmentStatus" : 1 }
]
)

By default, index builds use "votingMembers" commit quorum, or all data-bearing voting replica set members. The following operation modifies the index build commit quorum to "majority", or a simple majority of data-bearing voting members:.

db.getSiblingDB("examples").runCommand(
{
"setIndexCommitQuorum" : "invoices",
"indexNames" : ["invoices_1", "fullfillmentStatus_1"],
"commitQuorum" : "majority"
}
)
  • The indexes specified to indexNames must be the entire set of in-progress builds associated to a given index builder, i.e. the createIndexes() operation.

  • The indexNames field specifies the names of the indexes. Since the indexes were created without an explicit name, MongoDB generated an index name by concatenating the names of the indexed fields and the sort order.

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