# Searching versions
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-versions/13338
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 27, 2013, 12:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-versions/13338 "2013-08-27T00:48:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Mohit\_Anchlia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mohit_Anchlia)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2013, 12:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-versions/13338/1 "2013-08-27T00:48:11Z")
Is it possible to run a search on the history of versions instead of just
the recent one? For eg:
Key 1: Version 1
{ user : 'abc'
age: 20
}
Key 1: Version 2
{
email: [abc@d.com](mailto:abc@d.com)
}
Now can I search on "user:abc"?
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### Author:  [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2013, 1:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-versions/13338/2 "2013-08-27T01:02:43Z")
Previous versions of a document are not available. The version field is
also not queryable.
Cheers,
Ivan
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Mohit Anchlia [mohitanchlia@gmail.com](mailto:mohitanchlia@gmail.com)wrote:
> Is it possible to run a search on the history of versions instead of just
> the recent one? For eg:
>
> Key 1: Version 1
> { user : 'abc'
> age: 20
> }
>
> Key 1: Version 2
> {
> email: [abc@d.com](mailto:abc@d.com)
> }
>
> Now can I search on "user:abc"?
>
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### Author:  [@Mohit\_Anchlia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mohit_Anchlia)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2013, 3:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-versions/13338/3 "2013-08-27T03:44:21Z")
Wondering what's the use of having versions if it can't be queried?
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Ivan Brusic [ivan@brusic.com](mailto:ivan@brusic.com) wrote:
> Previous versions of a document are not available. The version field is
> also not queryable.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ivan
>
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Mohit Anchlia [mohitanchlia@gmail.com](mailto:mohitanchlia@gmail.com)wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to run a search on the history of versions instead of just
> > the recent one? For eg:
> >
> > Key 1: Version 1
> > { user : 'abc'
> > age: 20
> > }
> >
> > Key 1: Version 2
> > {
> > email: [abc@d.com](mailto:abc@d.com)
> > }
> >
> > Now can I search on "user:abc"?
> >
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2013, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-versions/13338/4 "2013-09-12T09:54:21Z")
Hey,
it is good for optimistic concurrency control, see
[Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/index_/) and
[Optimistic concurrency control - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimistic_concurrency_control)
Hope this helps (if not, just ask),
--Alex
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Mohit Anchlia [mohitanchlia@gmail.com](mailto:mohitanchlia@gmail.com)wrote:
> Wondering what's the use of having versions if it can't be queried?
>
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Ivan Brusic [ivan@brusic.com](mailto:ivan@brusic.com) wrote:
>
> > Previous versions of a document are not available. The version field is
> > also not queryable.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ivan
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Mohit Anchlia [mohitanchlia@gmail.com](mailto:mohitanchlia@gmail.com)wrote:
> >
> > > Is it possible to run a search on the history of versions instead of
> > > just the recent one? For eg:
> > >
> > > Key 1: Version 1
> > > { user : 'abc'
> > > age: 20
> > > }
> > >
> > > Key 1: Version 2
> > > {
> > > email: [abc@d.com](mailto:abc@d.com)
> > > }
> > >
> > > Now can I search on "user:abc"?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-versions/13338/5 "2017-07-06T02:16:58Z")