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Specify Name for text Index¶
The default name for the index consists of each indexed field name
concatenated with _text. For example, the following command creates
a text index on the fields content, users.comments, and
users.profiles:
db.collection.createIndex(
{
content: "text",
"users.comments": "text",
"users.profiles": "text"
}
)
The default name for the index is:
"content_text_users.comments_text_users.profiles_text"
The text index, like other indexes, must fall within the
index name length limit.
Specify a Name for text Index¶
To avoid creating an index with a name that exceeds the index
name length limit, you can pass the name
option to the db.collection.createIndex() method:
db.collection.createIndex(
{
content: "text",
"users.comments": "text",
"users.profiles": "text"
},
{
name: "MyTextIndex"
}
)
Use the Index Name to Drop a text Index¶
Whether the text index has the default name
or you specified a name for the text index,
to drop the text index, pass the index name
to the db.collection.dropIndex() method.
For example, consider the index created by the following operation:
db.collection.createIndex(
{
content: "text",
"users.comments": "text",
"users.profiles": "text"
},
{
name: "MyTextIndex"
}
)
Then, to remove this text index, pass the name "MyTextIndex" to the
db.collection.dropIndex() method, as in the following:
db.collection.dropIndex("MyTextIndex")
To get the names of the indexes, use the
db.collection.getIndexes() method.