# Is it possible to turn off field data compression?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-turn-off-field-data-compression/122816
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 7, 2018, 4:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-turn-off-field-data-compression/122816 "2018-03-07T04:29:01Z")
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### Author: ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-turn-off-field-data-compression/122816/3 "2018-03-08T08:42:52Z")

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No, I don't think you can turn off compression. Why would you want to do that anyway?

[This post](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-compression/27590) discusses it in a bit more detail, and should still be relevant even though it covers an old version.

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