Can't add properties to a new type

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    PUT /customers/_mapping/instore
{
  "properties":{
    "name":{
      "type":"text",
      "analyzer":"standard"
    }
  }
}

ERROR:

{
  "error": {
    "root_cause": [
      {
        "type": "illegal_argument_exception",
        "reason": "Rejecting mapping update to [customers] as the final mapping would have more than 1 type: [instore, online]"
      }
    ],
    "type": "illegal_argument_exception",
    "reason": "Rejecting mapping update to [customers] as the final mapping would have more than 1 type: [instore, online]"
  },
  "status": 400
}
2

You can't add 2 types in a 6.x index.

3

Can you please elaborate?
What if I want to use two types online and instore and I want to set the properties for both of them?

4

Read this blog post about the removal of types in Elasticsearch 6.0.

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