# Unable to Tessellate shape error on indexing ES 7.6

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-tessellate-shape-error-on-indexing-es-7-6/220867>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 25, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-tessellate-shape-error-on-indexing-es-7-6/220867 "2020-02-25T14:09:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![oshan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/oshan/32/61485_2.png) [@oshan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/oshan)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-tessellate-shape-error-on-indexing-es-7-6/220867/1 "2020-02-25T14:09:10Z")

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this geometry is valid according to the postgresql (postgis) `st_isvalid` method  
but Elasticsearch throws `illegal_argument_exception` error on indexing

> <https://gist.github.com/owexroasia/127c61ee41304fe2d2d0e0015216a780>

> {"type":"mapper\_parsing\_exception","reason":"failed to parse field [ranges.geometry] of type [geo\_shape]"}],"type":"mapper\_parsing\_exception","reason":"failed to parse field [ranges.geometry] of type [geo\_shape]","caused\_by":{"type":"illegal\_argument\_exception","reason":"Unable to Tessellate shape

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**Author:** ![Ignacio\_Vera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ignacio_vera/32/36674_2.png) [@Ignacio\_Vera](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ignacio_Vera)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 11:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-tessellate-shape-error-on-indexing-es-7-6/220867/2 "2020-02-26T11:09:15Z")

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Thanks for reporting. I was able to reproduce it and it seems a bug in Lucene's tessellator. I whave open an issue for this:

[https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-9251](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-9251)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 11:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-tessellate-shape-error-on-indexing-es-7-6/220867/3 "2020-03-25T11:09:54Z")

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