# Inaccurate documentation for not\_analyzed and full text queries

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inaccurate-documentation-for-not-analyzed-and-full-text-queries/124727>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 20, 2018, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inaccurate-documentation-for-not-analyzed-and-full-text-queries/124727 "2018-03-20T10:11:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![david3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f475e1/32.png) [@david3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/david3)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inaccurate-documentation-for-not-analyzed-and-full-text-queries/124727/1 "2018-03-20T10:11:43Z")

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The documentation here [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/term-vs-full-text.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/term-vs-full-text.html) says

"If you query an exact value (not\_analyzed) string field, they will treat the whole query string as a single term."

Not true, match\_queries produce the following error message on not\_analyzed fields

reason": "Cannot search on field [...] since it is not indexed."

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**Author:** ![Varan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/varan/32/32120_2.png) [@Varan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Varan)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 10:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inaccurate-documentation-for-not-analyzed-and-full-text-queries/124727/2 "2018-03-20T10:15:48Z")

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This doc is outdated.  
It concern Elasticsearch up to 2.X.  
Look on the right of the page.

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**Author:** ![david3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f475e1/32.png) [@david3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/david3)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inaccurate-documentation-for-not-analyzed-and-full-text-queries/124727/3 "2018-03-20T10:18:31Z")

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+1, retracted.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inaccurate-documentation-for-not-analyzed-and-full-text-queries/124727/5 "2018-03-20T10:23:21Z")

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I'm not sure BTW. There is a difference between not analyzed and not indexed.  
So I'd say that it depends on the options you used?

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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:** [April 17, 2018, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inaccurate-documentation-for-not-analyzed-and-full-text-queries/124727/6 "2018-04-17T10:23:46Z")

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