# Dazzled and confused with the \_all field in 6.+

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dazzled-and-confused-with-the--all-field-in-6/96822>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 11, 2017, 8:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dazzled-and-confused-with-the--all-field-in-6/96822 "2017-08-11T20:01:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dazzled-and-confused-with-the--all-field-in-6/96822/2 "2017-08-11T22:34:30Z")

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The reason that we are removing `_all` is that we will have a query that will query all the fields. So the end functionality is the same, just using a more efficient method.

With that in mind, what do you want to do with `_all`?

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