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Deleting Documents

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Deleting Documents

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Deleting a document is fairly straightforward. This example shows how to delete our previous customer with the ID of 2:

DELETE /customer/external/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.

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