Setting precision_step to zero

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Hello ElasticSearch users,

Using version 0.16.2, I set precision_step to zero for an integer type to simulate plain integer. (not for range queries, but for field faceting)

{"type" : "integer", "store" : "no", "precision_step" : "0"}

However when I retrieve the mapping via
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/myindex/mytype/_mapping?pretty=true'

it displays precision_step as 2147483647. Ditto for float type.

"my_plain_integer" : {
"precision_step" : 2147483647,
"type" : "integer"
},

Is this something cosmetic? Or setting it to zero isn't taking effect?

Thanks,
Ahmet

2

This is correct, 0 is translated to Integer.MAX_VALUE which produces one term per numeric field.

On Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Ahmet Arslan wrote:

Hello Elasticsearch users,

Using version 0.16.2, I set precision_step to zero for an integer type to simulate plain integer. (not for range queries, but for field faceting)

{"type" : "integer", "store" : "no", "precision_step" : "0"}

However when I retrieve the mapping via
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/myindex/mytype/_mapping?pretty=true'

it displays precision_step as 2147483647. Ditto for float type.

"my_plain_integer" : {
"precision_step" : 2147483647,
"type" : "integer"
},

Is this something cosmetic? Or setting it to zero isn't taking effect?

Thanks,
Ahmet

3

: This is correct, 0 is translated to Integer.MAX_VALUE which produces
: one term per numeric field.

It is good to know that, thanks Shay!