# Nested documents returned in search results by error
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nested-documents-returned-in-search-results-by-error/19004
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 31, 2014, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nested-documents-returned-in-search-results-by-error/19004 "2014-07-31T10:12:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Jennifer\_Cumming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jennifer_Cumming)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2014, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nested-documents-returned-in-search-results-by-error/19004/1 "2014-07-31T10:12:23Z")
I'm trying to use a nested object type to store some additional data but
running into some inconsistencies versus the documentation when it comes to
searching. From the documentation it sounds like a simple search like
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must" : {
"query\_string": {
"query": "jane"
}
}
}
}
}
Should not return any documents where the only instance of "jane" is in a
nested document. Yet when I run this search against my test data it does.
Mystery deepens when I then use the explain API to try work out why it was
returned and it says the document was matched on \_all yet I have
include\_in\_all set to false in the mapping.
mapping and data for the two documents
here [https://gist.github.com/anonymous/febab9c09bdf9ea9849c](https://gist.github.com/anonymous/febab9c09bdf9ea9849c)
Search results here [https://gist.github.com/anonymous/74311fab5e2452938505](https://gist.github.com/anonymous/74311fab5e2452938505)
Explain here [https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4fed3653658d70fb0df8](https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4fed3653658d70fb0df8)
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### Author:  [@Jennifer\_Cumming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jennifer_Cumming)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nested-documents-returned-in-search-results-by-error/19004/2 "2014-08-04T15:12:23Z")
> Update to this. I installed the lastest version and this fixed my issue
> for a while until I ran a search with a query with highlighting that should
> not have hit on the nested documents but they appeared in the results.. At
> this point I started to see the nested documents hitting on every query
> (with or without highlighting) due to their contents now being included in
> \_all. It looks like doing the highlighting pulled everything into the \_all
> field.
On Thursday, 31 July 2014 11:12:23 UTC+1, Jennifer Cumming wrote:
> I'm trying to use a nested object type to store some additional data but
> running into some inconsistencies versus the documentation when it comes to
> searching. From the documentation it sounds like a simple search like
>
> {
> "query": {
> "bool": {
> "must" : {
> "query\_string": {
> "query": "jane"
> }
> }
> }
> }
> }
>
> Should not return any documents where the only instance of "jane" is in a
> nested document. Yet when I run this search against my test data it does.
> Mystery deepens when I then use the explain API to try work out why it was
> returned and it says the document was matched on \_all yet I have
> include\_in\_all set to false in the mapping.
>
> mapping and data for the two documents here
> [Mapping and data for nested type · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/anonymous/febab9c09bdf9ea9849c)
> Search results here [Search results · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/anonymous/74311fab5e2452938505)
> Explain here [Return from explain api on the document with id bronte · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4fed3653658d70fb0df8)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nested-documents-returned-in-search-results-by-error/19004/3 "2017-07-06T01:11:00Z")