Allowing multiple mappings in Elastic Search 6

Question

I am upgrading from Elastic 5.6.16 to 6.8.13 and it's complaining about "Rejecting mapping update to...as the final mapping would have more than 1 type"

Without switching to single mapping, is there a workaround to use multiple mapping in ElasticSearch 6?

I have tried updating the Index settings with: "index.mapping.single_type": "false"

but it complains about that setting not being a thing.

Does anyone have any other recommendations/ways to resolve this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

It is not possible, elasticsearch version 6.X only supports one type per index in your mappings.

The setting index.mapping.single_type was to be used in version 5.6 set to true to prepare your index to have the same behavior as the ones on version 6.X, this setting does not exist in version 6.X if I'm not wrong.