# Mapping: Allowing to load booleans eagerly as global ordinals like keyword
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-allowing-to-load-booleans-eagerly-as-global-ordinals-like-keyword/375723
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 11, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-allowing-to-load-booleans-eagerly-as-global-ordinals-like-keyword/375723 "2025-03-11T16:03:10Z")
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-allowing-to-load-booleans-eagerly-as-global-ordinals-like-keyword/375723/1 "2025-03-11T16:03:10Z")
Hey,
keywords can be configured to be loaded eagerly as global ordinals in the mapping. This is important to not run into delays if a query hits a segment for first time.
I've been wondering if such an option should also exist for the boolean field type. I am not sure how a boolean is stored, but if it is keyword like as a term, would it make sense to also load it eagerly or am I missing something?
Appreciate any help to my confusion 🙂
Have a good week everyone!
--Alex
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### Author:  [@xeraa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xeraa)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2025, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-allowing-to-load-booleans-eagerly-as-global-ordinals-like-keyword/375723/2 "2025-06-17T08:36:21Z")
Maybe `index.store.preload` as the closest concept?
But I don't think a boolean has the same ordinal mapping that the global ordinals solve, so I'm not sure there's really an equivalent for this.
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### Author:  [@Mikhail\_Khludnev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mikhail_Khludnev)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-allowing-to-load-booleans-eagerly-as-global-ordinals-like-keyword/375723/3 "2025-06-17T14:46:00Z")
I don't think it's applicable in any sense.
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2025, 7:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-allowing-to-load-booleans-eagerly-as-global-ordinals-like-keyword/375723/4 "2025-06-20T07:32:19Z")
So my understanding so far:
1. A boolean is stored as a string, either `T` or `F`
2. Loading the global ordinals for a boolean is much faster, because the cardinality is much lower
3. Because this cannot be configured to be loaded before the first query needs a fresh segment, you still can run into slowdowns at query time - how big those are I have no idea.
--Alex