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Limit Queryedit
Deprecated in 2.0.0-beta1.
Use the terminate_after parameter instead.
A limit query limits the number of documents (per shard) to execute on. For example:
{
"filtered" : {
"filter" : {
"limit" : {"value" : 100}
},
"query" : {
"term" : { "name.first" : "shay" }
}
}
}