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zer09
zer09

Reputation: 1586

Is it possible to exclude field on firestore index?

I just watched the playlist of Get to know Cloud Firestore, and I just learned that every field of the document is indexed.

My question is, is there way for a certain fields to be excluded on by Firestore indexing? Something like fields that I am pretty sure that I will not be using as a query lookup.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 978

Answers (1)

Frank van Puffelen
Frank van Puffelen

Reputation: 599591

As you correctly found, Firestore automatically indexes all individual fields of the documents in the collection. You can exclude certain fields from the single field indexes panel in the Firebase console.

From there:

Cloud Firestore creates the indexes defined by your automatic index settings for each field you add, enabling most simple queries by default. You can add exemptions to manually set how a specific field is indexed.

From there, you can enter the collection (or collection group), and the field name, and then select which indexes (ascending, descending, arrays) get auto-created or not.

Upvotes: 3

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