Always return false from refreshNeeded on ReadOnlyEngine

server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/engine/Engine.java

@@ -1000,7 +1000,7 @@ private void fillSegmentInfo(SegmentReader segmentReader, boolean verbose, boole
      */
     public abstract List<Segment> segments(boolean verbose);
 
-    public final boolean refreshNeeded() {
+    public boolean refreshNeeded() {
         if (store.tryIncRef()) {
             /*
               we need to inc the store here since we acquire a searcher and that might keep a file open on the

server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/engine/ReadOnlyEngine.java

@@ -419,4 +419,9 @@ public void initializeMaxSeqNoOfUpdatesOrDeletes() {
     protected void processReaders(IndexReader reader, IndexReader previousReader) {
         searcherFactory.processReaders(reader, previousReader);
     }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean refreshNeeded() {
+        return false;
+    }
 }

server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/SearchService.java

@@ -531,8 +531,7 @@ public void executeFetchPhase(InternalScrollSearchRequest request, SearchTask ta
                 long afterQueryTime = System.nanoTime();
                 operationListener.onQueryPhase(context, afterQueryTime - time);
                 QueryFetchSearchResult fetchSearchResult = executeFetchPhase(context, operationListener, afterQueryTime);
-                return new ScrollQueryFetchSearchResult(fetchSearchResult,
-                    context.shardTarget());
+                return new ScrollQueryFetchSearchResult(fetchSearchResult, context.shardTarget());
             } catch (Exception e) {
                 logger.trace("Fetch phase failed", e);
                 processFailure(context, e);

x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/engine/FrozenEngine.java

@@ -205,10 +205,11 @@ public Searcher acquireSearcher(String source, SearcherScope scope) throws Engin
                     assert false : "this is a read-only engine";
                 case "doc_stats":
                     assert false : "doc_stats are overwritten";
+                case "refresh_needed":
+                    assert false : "refresh_needed is always false";
                 case "segments":
                 case "segments_stats":
                 case "completion_stats":
-                case "refresh_needed":
                 case "can_match": // special case for can_match phase - we use the cached point values reader
                     maybeOpenReader = false;
                     break;