# Can i filter/query by \_version?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-filter-query-by--version/14419
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 14, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-filter-query-by--version/14419 "2013-11-14T20:13:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@dosmoney](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dosmoney)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-filter-query-by--version/14419/1 "2013-11-14T20:13:04Z")
I'm indexing a lot of records of type "customer" and manually setting "\_id"
from an internal data source.
Our internal ID should be unique but during testing I see one record having
"\_version" : 2.
I'm trying to query all records with "\_version" greater than 1 but having a
hard time, any ideas?
Thanks - Ben
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### Author:  [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-filter-query-by--version/14419/2 "2013-11-14T20:23:21Z")
The \_version field is not indexed, therefore you cannot query/filter on it.
Cheers,
Ivan
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:13 PM, ben schulte [ben.schulte@gmail.com](mailto:ben.schulte@gmail.com) wrote:
> I'm indexing a lot of records of type "customer" and manually setting
> "\_id" from an internal data source.
> Our internal ID should be unique but during testing I see one record
> having "\_version" : 2.
>
> I'm trying to query all records with "\_version" greater than 1 but having
> a hard time, any ideas?
>
> Thanks - Ben
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-filter-query-by--version/14419/3 "2017-07-06T02:06:53Z")