# Elasticsearch - changing search time analyzer ( query time analyzer)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-changing-search-time-analyzer-query-time-analyzer/148984>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 18, 2018, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-changing-search-time-analyzer-query-time-analyzer/148984 "2018-09-18T12:47:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Navneet\_Mathpal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/navneet_mathpal/32/3677_2.png) [@Navneet\_Mathpal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Navneet_Mathpal)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-changing-search-time-analyzer-query-time-analyzer/148984/1 "2018-09-18T12:47:29Z")

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Hello,

I was going through elastic documentation ,

> Although you can add new types to an index, or add new fields to a type, you can’t add new analyzers or make changes to existing fields.

can we not change the search\_analyzer as well ? we do not need the re-indexing of data , if we change the search\_analyzer .

Thanks,  
Navneet

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-changing-search-time-analyzer-query-time-analyzer/148984/2 "2018-09-20T12:40:31Z")

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the search analyzer can be changed via putting the mapping, see the comment at the end of [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.4/search-analyzer.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.4/search-analyzer.html)

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**Author:** ![Navneet\_Mathpal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/navneet_mathpal/32/3677_2.png) [@Navneet\_Mathpal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Navneet_Mathpal)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-changing-search-time-analyzer-query-time-analyzer/148984/3 "2018-09-20T13:28:11Z")

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say I have a analyzer that I have created for query time now I have to change the word delimiter filter for that , without reindexing as it is in query time  
I tried to close the idex and then try to put the analyzer again but could not do so.

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-changing-search-time-analyzer-query-time-analyzer/148984/4 "2018-09-21T06:50:19Z")

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please provide a fully reproducible example, otherwise it is hard to follow what you did.

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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:** [October 19, 2018, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-changing-search-time-analyzer-query-time-analyzer/148984/5 "2018-10-19T06:50:26Z")

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