signal/tire — comment on commit fa3decee35d20a326d465627e62176f56037ccfb
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By karmi:

John, this commit would shoot down any larger import operation, which sends chunks of documents (1000 by default) to bulk. In many cases, you don't want to stop the whole operation at the first failure, but leave it to continue with other batches.

Or, maybe I'm missing something?