Parent/Child with one to many?

Hello all, I'm trying to understand whether the parent child
functionality in elastic search will suit my needs or if I'm barking
up the wrong tree.

I have an index on forum posts with the body, user_id of the author.
I'd like to create an index on users (with age, gender etc) so that i
can search for posts containing a keyword that were created by a user
of a certain age.

At a high level, I'd like to do a search on posts with a has_child
query on a related user object. The problem here is that the user
would need many parents, do this doesn't seem to fit the model.

Anyone have any ideas on this?

thanks

-James

Yea, it does not seem to fit the model. You should denoarmalize the posts and add the relevant user data to it.
On Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 10:53 PM, James K wrote:

Hello all, I'm trying to understand whether the parent child
functionality in Elasticsearch will suit my needs or if I'm barking
up the wrong tree.

I have an index on forum posts with the body, user_id of the author.
I'd like to create an index on users (with age, gender etc) so that i
can search for posts containing a keyword that were created by a user
of a certain age.

At a high level, I'd like to do a search on posts with a has_child
query on a related user object. The problem here is that the user
would need many parents, do this doesn't seem to fit the model.

Anyone have any ideas on this?

thanks

-James