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Deleting Documents
editDeleting Documents
editDeleting a document is fairly straightforward. This example shows how to delete our previous customer with the ID of 2:
DELETE /customer/doc/2?pretty
See the _delete_by_query
API to delete all documents matching a specific query.
It is worth noting that it is much more efficient to delete a whole index
instead of deleting all documents with the Delete By Query API.