when performing a 'match' query as below, elasticsearch 1.7.2 is not able to distinguish between: a document with _type of 'user' & a field called 'name' a document of any _type with a field called 'user.name' the following query is used as an example in all comments below: curl -XGET 'http://…

Complex field name and type name collision

rjernst (Ryan Ernst) March 15, 2016, 9:16pm 2

These types of resolution issues were common in 1.x, and were fixed by https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/8872 for 2.0+.

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