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Expand Up @@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ POST /customer/external/1/_update?pretty

In the above example, `ctx._source` refers to the current source document that is about to be updated.

Note that as of this writing, updates can only be performed on a single document at a time. In the future, Elasticsearch might provide the ability to update multiple documents given a query condition (like an `SQL UPDATE-WHERE` statement).
Elasticsearch provides the ability to update multiple documents given a query condition (like an `SQL UPDATE-WHERE` statement). See {ref}/docs-update-by-query.html[`docs-update-by-query` API]

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