# Dynamic mapping problems **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [February 12, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dynamic-mapping-problems/10714 "2013-02-12T17:02:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![andrea\_crotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@andrea\_crotti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrea_crotti)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dynamic-mapping-problems/10714/1 "2013-02-12T17:02:49Z")
We had some serious issues due to changes in the mapping, which seems to have been triggered by itself. We use the couchdb river, and for example some entries stopped being indexed out of the blue and fail. Taking these entries and indexing them manually works perfectly, so it seems really a mapping problem, but the annoying thing is that we have no idea of how this could have happened since the "schema" was not even changed. So now from now on we decided to disable completely the dynamic mapping, setting manually everything might be a bit painful but at least I know it's not going to change. Any ideas of how it could have happened? Or any advice of other possible viable strategies? Thanks a lot -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dynamic-mapping-problems/10714/2 "2017-07-06T02:51:52Z")