Span queries

Span queries #

Span queries are low-level positional queries that expose and control the positions of terms — the building blocks for phrase-adjacent logic that phrase does not express directly. Most use cases are better served by match_phrase (or its slop); the span family exists for the remaining ones.

Inside a nested query: not supported yet — span clauses are rejected with an HTTP 400 naming the offending clause. Use phrase with slop for positional logic.

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