From 93edbc00309462e8b4e1255cdc9deefd22f58e6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antonio Matarrese Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:44:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] describe how to apply best_compression (#25706) * describe how to apply best_compression * update description --- docs/reference/index-modules.asciidoc | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/reference/index-modules.asciidoc b/docs/reference/index-modules.asciidoc index 0ec0724359a..51d2291c4d8 100644 --- a/docs/reference/index-modules.asciidoc +++ b/docs/reference/index-modules.asciidoc @@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ WARNING: Expert only. Checking shards may take a lot of time on large indices. compression, but this can be set to +best_compression+ which uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFLATE[DEFLATE] for a higher compression ratio, at the expense of slower stored fields performance. + If you are updating the compression type, the new one will be applied + after segments are merged. Segment merging can be forced using + <>. [[routing-partition-size]] `index.routing_partition_size`::