diff --git a/docs/reference/mapping/types/wildcard.asciidoc b/docs/reference/mapping/types/wildcard.asciidoc index ab13bb41afe..fae5b90805b 100644 --- a/docs/reference/mapping/types/wildcard.asciidoc +++ b/docs/reference/mapping/types/wildcard.asciidoc @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ A `wildcard` field stores values optimised for wildcard grep-like queries. Wildcard queries are possible on other field types but suffer from constraints: + * `text` fields limit matching of any wildcard expressions to individual tokens rather than the original whole value held in a field * `keyword` fields are untokenized but slow at performing wildcard queries (especially patterns with leading wildcards).