The documentation on prefix queries states: "Matches documents that have fields containing terms with a specified prefix (not analyzed)". I took this to mean that the mapping for the field had to be not_analized. However, after some experimentation, I found that it does sort of work on an analysed …

Safe to use prefix query on analysed field?

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Safe to use prefix query on analysed field?

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