title: Bulk update by query in Elastic Search?
body: <p>I know that Elastic Search does not currently support bulk updating by query because of Lucene, but are there any alternatives that don't involve installing an ElasticSearch extension?</p>
  
  <p>For example, are there any workarounds to performing:</p>
  
  <pre><code>UPDATE users SET temp = 1 WHERE temp = 0;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Using the bulk method? Or some other method that I don't know about?</p>
  
  <p>I'm new to Elastic Search as an entity so I don't know the ins and outs, but I have read a lot about its ability to update one at a time, but that would be too time consuming with hundreds of thousands of rows.</p>
  
  <p>Just looking for someone to point me in the right direction.</p>