# Downside to using version=true in search requests?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downside-to-using-version-true-in-search-requests/18306
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 24, 2014, 6:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downside-to-using-version-true-in-search-requests/18306 "2014-06-24T18:50:47Z")
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### Author:  [@Gabe\_Gorelick\_Feldma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gabe_Gorelick_Feldma)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2014, 6:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downside-to-using-version-true-in-search-requests/18306/1 "2014-06-24T18:50:47Z")
Is there a reason that search responses do not include a \_version by
default? I know you can include it by specifying version=true in the search
params, but I was wondering if there's some reason you wouldn't want to do
that by default, e.g. because of performance implications.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downside-to-using-version-true-in-search-requests/18306/2 "2017-07-06T01:20:04Z")