mongoose - MongooseJS cant disable unique to field

Question

This is my mongoosejs schema. I set name unique to false, but this is what i get: MongoError: insertDocument :: caused by :: 11000 E11000 duplicate key error index: testdb1.images.$name_1 dup key: { : "aaa" }

imageSchema = new Schema({
    url: {
        type: String,
        unique: true,
        required: true
    },

    category: {
        type: String,
        required: true
    },

    vote: {
        type: Number,
        required: true
    },

    name: {
        type: String,
        unique: false,
        required: true
    },

    voteArray: [],
    favorite: false,
    tags: []

});

any ides how to solve this ? suggestions ?

Answer 1

Mongoose won't modify existing indexes, so you'll need to drop that index in the MongoDB shell and then let Mongoose recreate it using the definition in your schema:

> db.images.dropIndex('name_1');