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				|  |  |  [[mapping-field-names-field]]
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				|  |  |  === `_field_names` field
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				|  |  |  
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				|  |  | -The `_field_names` field indexes the names of every field in a document that
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				|  |  | -contains any value other than `null`.  This field is used by the
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				|  |  | +The `_field_names` field used to index the names of every field in a document that
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				|  |  | +contains any value other than `null`.  This field was used by the
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				|  |  |  <<query-dsl-exists-query,`exists`>> query to find documents that
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				|  |  |  either have or don't have any non-+null+ value for a particular field.
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				|  |  |  
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				|  |  | -The value of the `_field_names` field is accessible in queries:
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -[source,js]
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				|  |  | ---------------------------
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				|  |  | -# Example documents
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				|  |  | -PUT my_index/_doc/1
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				|  |  | -{
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				|  |  | -  "title": "This is a document"
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				|  |  | -}
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -PUT my_index/_doc/2?refresh=true
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				|  |  | -{
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				|  |  | -  "title": "This is another document",
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				|  |  | -  "body": "This document has a body"
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				|  |  | -}
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -GET my_index/_search
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				|  |  | -{
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				|  |  | -  "query": {
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				|  |  | -    "terms": {
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				|  |  | -      "_field_names": [ "title" ] <1>
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				|  |  | -    }
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				|  |  | -  }
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				|  |  | -}
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | ---------------------------
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				|  |  | -// CONSOLE
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -<1> Querying on the `_field_names` field (also see the <<query-dsl-exists-query,`exists`>> query)
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | +Now the `_field_names` field only indexes the names of fields that have
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				|  |  | +`doc_values` and `norms` disabled. For fields which have either `doc_values`
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				|  |  | +or `norm` enabled the <<query-dsl-exists-query,`exists`>> query will still
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				|  |  | +be available but will not use the `_field_names` field.
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				|  |  |  
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				|  |  |  ==== Disabling `_field_names`
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				|  |  |  
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				|  |  | -Because `_field_names` introduce some index-time overhead, you might want to
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				|  |  | -disable this field if you want to optimize for indexing speed and do not need
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				|  |  | -`exists` queries.
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				|  |  | +Disabling `_field_names` is often not necessary because it no longer
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				|  |  | +carries the index overhead it once did. If you have a lot of fields
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				|  |  | +which have `doc_values` and `norms` disabled and you do not need to
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				|  |  | +execute `exists` queries using those fields you might want to disable
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				|  |  | +`_field_names` be adding the following to the mappings:
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				|  |  |  
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				|  |  |  [source,js]
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				|  |  |  --------------------------------------------------
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