It seems it's not possible to change the mapping of a field after it's creation. Will this be fixed in the future? I have tried the following on an existing index/type: curl -XPOST http://localhost:9200/index/type/_mapping -d '{ "type": { "properties": { "field": { "type": "integer" } } } }…

Update type of a field mapping

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Update type of a field mapping