# Elasticsearch 2.x Querystring does not support AND NOT?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-x-querystring-does-not-support-and-not/58276>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 17, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-x-querystring-does-not-support-and-not/58276 "2016-08-17T17:13:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![shwetaskatdare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@shwetaskatdare](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shwetaskatdare)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-x-querystring-does-not-support-and-not/58276/1 "2016-08-17T17:13:07Z")

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Following querystring doesn't work.

"query\_string": {  
"query": "(field1: value1\*) AND NOT field2: value2\*"  
}

is AND NOT not supported ?

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**Author:** ![msimos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@msimos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/msimos)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-x-querystring-does-not-support-and-not/58276/2 "2016-08-17T19:46:11Z")

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Hi,

AND NOT is supported as documented here:

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-query-string-query.html#\_boolean\_operators](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-query-string-query.html#_boolean_operators)

Also doing a quick test, seems like AND NOT works as expected.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-x-querystring-does-not-support-and-not/58276/3 "2017-07-05T22:27:09Z")

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