# Elasticsearch not returning larger results (not total result size/length, but size of individual hit

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-returning-larger-results-not-total-result-size-length-but-size-of-individual-hit/319242>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 17, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-returning-larger-results-not-total-result-size-length-but-size-of-individual-hit/319242 "2022-11-17T21:23:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood1/32/101255_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood1)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 8:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-returning-larger-results-not-total-result-size-length-but-size-of-individual-hit/319242/2 "2022-11-18T08:46:15Z")

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> [@NickIsWorking](#):
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> My question is, is there some max size that an object in elasticsearch can be for it to return it when requested?

The default keyword mapping ignores strings longer than 256 characters, [silently dropping values from the list of indexed terms](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-need-help-elasticsearch-does-not-match-my-regexp-wildcard-or-query-string-queries/239473).

Note that if you _do_ [raise](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.9/ignore-above.html) the Elasticsearch limit, you cannot exceed the hard Lucene limit of 32k for a single token

If you’re searching for exact large values (as opposed to parts of large values) then it may be more efficient to index hashes of the content and deal with the rare issue of false positives in your client.

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