No reindexing of NumericFieldValues?

According to this article http://shaierera.blogspot.com/2013/09/boosting-documents-in-lucene.html Lucene allows for updating NumericFieldValues without reindexing the whole document. The help doc on Partial Updates in Elasticsearch implies otherwise. Can anyone explain how it is solved in Elasticsearch?

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