Storing Non-Indexed Document Fields in Typesense
TLDR Thomas asked about unindexed, stored fields. Jason explained that unindexed fields can be stored and returned if the document is a match. Andrew added a limitation about nested fields.
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Feb 23, 2022 (20 months ago)
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05:56 PM"data" : { "small": "foo", "big": "bar bar"} you can include or exclude "data" but not "data.small" or "data.big". This causes us a few problems, so I wanted to mention iz
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