# ES 6.0 1 type 1 index issues

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-6-0-1-type-1-index-issues/109291
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 27, 2017, 11:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-6-0-1-type-1-index-issues/109291 "2017-11-27T23:32:37Z")
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### Author: ![iti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b19c9b/32.png) [@iti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iti)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-6-0-1-type-1-index-issues/109291/2 "2017-12-07T21:04:57Z")

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This question was answered in the following post

> [@ES6.0: multiple types, indexes, relationships puzzle](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es6-0-multiple-types-indexes-relationships-puzzle/108984/14):
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> There is no way to do joins between two separate indexes in Elasticsearch. One type per index and then doing joins between those indexes is not possible and I don't see it happening in the foreseeable future. That's just not how Elasticsearch works. The only way that your use case is going to work is by normalizing to a single document type using the join field as I have described in my earlier post. To answer your first question: yes, unfortunately it's not easy to check individual child mappi…

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