Hi all, I'm new to Elasticsearch, using version 5.3. As i understand, the length of keyword field is limited to about 32K due to the limitation of Lucene's term byte-length limit of 32766. But, the thing I don't understand is, when I set a field type to keyword, and index to false，and store by d…

Why elasticsearch still check the length of a keyword field, even if it's not indexed?

dadoonet (David Pilato) June 6, 2018, 6:33am 3

Read this and specifically the "Also be patient" part.

It's fine to answer on your own thread after 2 or 3 days (not including weekends) if you don't have an answer.

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