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The antidote for index mapping exceptions: ignore_malformed
3 August 2023
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The antidote for index mapping exceptions: ignore_malformed

How an almost unknown setting called ignore_malformed can make the difference between dropping a document entirely if a single field is malformed or just ignoring that field and ingesting the document anyway.

Giuseppe Santoro

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