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`MV_SLICE` is useful, but loading values from lucene frequently sorts them so `MV_SLICE` is not as useful as you think it is. It's mostly for after, say, a `SPLIT`. This documents that and adds a link to the section on multivalues. It also moves similar docs to a separate paragraph in the docs for easier reading.
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// This is generated by ESQL's AbstractFunctionTestCase. Do no edit it. See ../README.md for how to regenerate it.
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*Description*
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Returns a subset of the multivalued field using the start and end index values. This is most useful when reading from a function that emits multivalued columns in a known order like <<esql-split>> or <<esql-mv_sort>>.
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The order that <<esql-multivalued-fields, multivalued fields>> are read from
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underlying storage is not guaranteed. It is *frequently* ascending, but don't
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rely on that.
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