What is "Query Length"?

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Hi all, I'm wondering what query length is referring to in this limit guide (it is set to 128)? Limits | Elastic App Search Documentation [8.2] | Elastic

I am having a hard time understanding what part of the query is limited to 128. We are running Elasticsearch 7.9 (not 7.1 as I wrote earlier), is there any guidance as to what the default value for query length limit for version 7.9?

I'm running a search query in this format and it's succeeding despite some of these product id's being longer than 128 characters:

curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/index/_search -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
  "query": {
    "bool" : {
        "filter" : {
          "term": {
            "category": "clothing"
          }, 
        }, 
        "filter" : {
            "terms" : { 
                "product_id" :[
                  "9de53bbf-2a65-49a1-8257-46029089804a"... (1000 of these)
               ]}}}}

Thanks in advance

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Elasticsearch 7.1 is EOL and no longer supported. Please upgrade ASAP.

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Can you give more details about the query and the exception?

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Thanks. I don't have an exception but the query is essentially "get me all things that 1. have clothing as their category 2. whose id is in this list of 1000 ids". I hoped that I captured this in the code snippet above.

My question is just what is "query length" in the limits page. I wasn't sure what that configuration refers to, thanks.

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Also we are running 7.9 and not 7.1.

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Maybe this doc about Search Settings
If you user Terms Query, read this.

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Many many thanks!

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7.9 is still EOL, you should be looking to upgrade ASAP.

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Yup thanks!

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To close the gap, it turns out I'm not using App Search so this question is not applicable to my use case.

I am guessing query length makes more sense if you're an app search user and it's very clear what that means?

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