Enable Text Search¶

New in version 2.4.

The text search is currently a beta feature. As a beta feature:

You need to explicitly enable the feature before creating a text index or using the text command.
To enable text search on replica sets and sharded clusters, you need to enable on each and every mongod for replica sets and on each and every mongos for sharded clusters.

Warning

Do not enable or use text search on production systems.

Text indexes have significant storage requirements and performance costs. See Storage Requirements and Performance Costs for more information.

You can enable the text search feature at startup with the textSearchEnabled parameter:

mongod --setParameter textSearchEnabled=true

You may prefer to set the textSearchEnabled parameter in the configuration file.

Additionally, you can enable the feature in the mongo shell with the setParameter command. This command does not propagate from the primary to the secondaries. You must enable on each and every mongod for replica sets.

Note

You must set the parameter every time you start the server. You may prefer to add the parameter to the configuration files.

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