Going through this documentation: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/search-request-docvalue-fields.html I'm trying to find out a real use case as why one would need the docvalue_field as part of the query? Already these are part of the source and can it not be achieved…

Elasticsearch | Use of "docvalue_field" in a search query

system (system) Closed July 30, 2018, 6:23pm 2

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