Elasticsearch 2.1: Result window is too large (index.max_result_window)

Question

We retrieve information from Elasticsearch 2.1 and allow the user to page thru the results. When the user requests a high page number we get the following error message:

Answer 1

In my case it looks like reducing the results via the from & size prefixes to the query will remove the error as we don't need all the results:

GET widgets_development/_search
{
  "from" : 0, 
  "size": 5,
  "query": {
    "bool": {}
  },
  "sort": {
    "col_one": "asc"
  }
}