Hi, I'm trying to understand how and where store documents and percolate queries for these documents. According to this documentation it's possible to create a new field in the index mapping with percolator data type. We also should have defined mapping in the index for the fields we're using in t…

It does look like you can index documents as well as percolator queries in the same index, if we can trust these examples (but this goes against what I thought I knew of percolator indices). I've never done that and there are good reasons not to. For scaling reasons you may want several percolator…

How to store percolate queries and documents

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Bernt_Rostad (Bernt Rostad) October 29, 2018, 1:01pm 2

No, this isn't possible since the percolator index must be of type "percolator". Store percolator queries and documents in separate indices.

Yes, you can and should use the same mapping for both, see this forum thread for how to do this.