What does HRESULT 0x80041618 (QUERY_E_UPGRADEINPROGRESS) mean?

 
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QUERY_E_INVALIDCOALESCE QUERY_E_AGGREGATE_NOT_SUPPORTED

QUERY_E_UPGRADEINPROGRESS

QUERY_E_UPGRADEINPROGRESS is a transient catalog-availability condition. The built-in description says queries are disabled while the index is updated and recommends trying again later; it does not mean the submitted SQL is invalid.

Retry with bounded backoff and monitor index progress

  • Record the first occurrence time and service/catalog events that indicate upgrade or reset activity.
  • Use bounded retry/backoff in clients instead of a tight loop that continuously reopens the same query.
  • Escalate when the condition persists without indexing progress or is accompanied by version/corruption errors.

Windows Search maintains persistent catalog structures and can reset or reindex them when configuration or version state changes. During such a transition, returning incomplete or inconsistent query results can be worse than temporarily rejecting queries. Keep this code separate from QUERY_E_INCORRECT_VERSION: one is a temporary server state, while the other says the server software is too old for the query feature.

Indexing process · Windows Search overview · Legacy query errors


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