# Long keyword/text fields just for retrieval
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/long-keyword-text-fields-just-for-retrieval/71374
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 12, 2017, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/long-keyword-text-fields-just-for-retrieval/71374 "2017-01-12T13:00:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@kuba](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kuba)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2017, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/long-keyword-text-fields-just-for-retrieval/71374/1 "2017-01-12T13:00:40Z")
Hi,
I need to store long fields, which I won't use for searching, sorting or aggregation. Which type should I use?
Keyword makes me think of short values like 'id', 'login', 'type'...
But I don't need to analyze/tokenize the field, I just want to put it in the elasticsearch and get it back.
Should I use `keyword`... maybe with some options like `"doc_values": false`?
Or `text` with `"index": false`?
Which would be more performant or anyhow more proper?
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### Author:  [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/long-keyword-text-fields-just-for-retrieval/71374/2 "2017-01-12T13:42:14Z")
For this I would use a `keyword` field with `"index": false` and `"doc_values": false`
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### Author:  [@kuba](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kuba)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/long-keyword-text-fields-just-for-retrieval/71374/3 "2017-01-12T15:28:14Z")
There is a problem with field length..
`Document contains at least one immense term in field=\\\"value\\\" (whose UTF8 encoding is longer than the max length 32766), all of which were skipped`
(...)
`bytes can be at most 32766 in length`
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### Author:  [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2017, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/long-keyword-text-fields-just-for-retrieval/71374/4 "2017-01-12T15:32:08Z")
This suggest that the `"index":false` setting was not applied. Can you check the mapping for that field and ensure that both `"index":false` and `"doc_values: false` are applied (you can do this by doing `GET /_mapping`) ?
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### Author:  [@kuba](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kuba)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/long-keyword-text-fields-just-for-retrieval/71374/5 "2017-01-12T15:41:19Z")
Thank you for quick answer. Turns out my script didn't add `"index": false` to the mapping.
Big thanks again!
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### Author:  [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/long-keyword-text-fields-just-for-retrieval/71374/6 "2017-01-12T15:41:47Z")
No Problem, glad you got it working 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/long-keyword-text-fields-just-for-retrieval/71374/7 "2017-02-09T15:42:28Z")
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