_updated_by_query for re-indexing elasticsearch documents
问题 We are using elasticsearch 5.5. We made some changes to the mapping : Added some new fields. Added analyzer to some fields. Removed some fields. Excluded some existing fields from _all. Removed the same analyzer setting from some exiting fields. Here is what I understand: For cases 2, and 4 we need to perform re-indexing for the changes to take effect. One approach I got to know to perform re-indexing is using _update_query with conflicts=proceed. I am only aware of the other ways: Re-index