Delete a specific type from an index

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Got curious so looked at the API documentation.

@cilzzz, you probably need to use https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.1/docs-delete-by-query.html

Something like

POST twitter/_delete_by_query
{
  "query": { 
    "match": {
      "type": "mssql"
    }
  }
}

Not exactly what you wanted to do. It should remove all documents of type: mssql but the mapping will remain. To remove a mapping you would have to reindex.