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Drop index automatically for fields with unique attribute set to false

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So I was creating a user model and set the email field to unique:true and everything seems to be fine, but when I decided that “Meh, I want the email to be NOT unique”, so remove the the unique:true option, and guess what? … Yes you guessed it return duplicate error, so I added the unique:false and set it to false and the error still persisted. With a little research on stackoverflow I came across with this answer. Well the answer solved the problem but It’s such a bummer to drop the index manually. Wouldn’t it be nice if mongoose just drops the index automatically when the option is set to unique:false? #midnightthoughts lol

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0xMarkiancommented, Jul 29, 2016

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vkarpov15commented, Jun 25, 2016

Good suggestion, will keep it open for a future release, but not a high priority because index management is not really mongoose’s strong suit

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