# Is it possible to disable versioning? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [February 19, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-disable-versioning/6750 "2012-02-19T20:44:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![T\_Vinod\_Gupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/fbc32d/32.png) [@T\_Vinod\_Gupta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/T_Vinod_Gupta)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-disable-versioning/6750/1 "2012-02-19T20:44:10Z")
in my use case, i don't really care about the versions of a document. i only care about the latest version. so i was wondering if its a good idea to disable it so that i save on space overhead of multiple versions? if so, how do i go about it? also, is there an api to purge all documents older than a certain timestamp? i saw that with each document, you can associate a ttl but i don't want to pre-commit myself to it at the time of document indexing. instead, i want to be able to do it in an adhoc manner. thanks ---
**Author:** ![Jasper\_van\_Wanrooy\_C](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jasper_van_wanrooy_c/32/2494_2.png) [@Jasper\_van\_Wanrooy\_C](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jasper_van_Wanrooy_C)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-disable-versioning/6750/2 "2012-02-19T21:39:26Z")
Hi, For some indices I also don't care about versions of documents. We optimize those indices every day by issuing the optimize call: [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/admin-indices-optimize.html) About the removal of irrelevant documents you can use the "delete by query" API. See here: [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/delete-by-query.html) Cheers, Jasper ----- Original Message ----- > From: "T Vinod Gupta" [tvinod@readypulse.com](mailto:tvinod@readypulse.com) > To: [elasticsearch@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch@googlegroups.com) > Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 9:44:10 PM > Subject: is it possible to disable versioning? > in my use case, i don't really care about the versions of a document. > i only care about the latest version. so i was wondering if its a > good idea to disable it so that i save on space overhead of multiple > versions? if so, how do i go about it? > also, is there an api to purge all documents older than a certain > timestamp? i saw that with each document, you can associate a ttl > but i don't want to pre-commit myself to it at the time of document > indexing. instead, i want to be able to do it in an adhoc manner. > thanks ---
**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-disable-versioning/6750/3 "2012-02-20T00:32:06Z")
Elasticsearch does not retain previous version of a document, it merely keeps track of the revision number. Any search/get query will return the latest version. If you do not want to use the TTL feature, you can always supply your own timestamp and execute a delete by (range) query. -- Ivan On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:44 PM, T Vinod Gupta [tvinod@readypulse.com](mailto:tvinod@readypulse.com) wrote: > in my use case, i don't really care about the versions of a document. i only > care about the latest version. so i was wondering if its a good idea to > disable it so that i save on space overhead of multiple versions? if so, how > do i go about it? > > also, is there an api to purge all documents older than a certain timestamp? > i saw that with each document, you can associate a ttl but i don't want to > pre-commit myself to it at the time of document indexing. instead, i want to > be able to do it in an adhoc manner. > > thanks ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-disable-versioning/6750/4 "2017-07-06T03:38:49Z")