UTF8 encoding is longer than the max length 32766

Question

I\'ve upgraded my Elasticsearch cluster from 1.1 to 1.2 and I have errors when indexing a somewhat big string.

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Answer 1

If you are using searchkick, upgrade elasticsearch to >= 2.2.0 & make sure you are using searchkick 1.3.4 or later.

This version of searchkick sets ignore_above = 256 by default, thus you won't get this error when UTF > 32766.

This is discussed here.