# Is it possible to disable versioning?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-disable-versioning/6750>\
**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")\
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**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")

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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

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