neo4j 4.1.3 -> Where condition with count not working as expected

[Shanthi Viswanathan]

I am using neo4j 4.1.3. I have 2 labels : Person and Rec. I need to create a relationship between these 2 only when there exists exactly one person with that last name. When I run the below, relationships are created for all persons with that last name. My code is below: 

MATCH (echk:REC {id: 'abcdef'}) OPTIONAL MATCH (p:Person) WHERE p.name CONTAINS 'Shirley' WITH p, echk, count(p) as personcnt where personcnt=1 CALL apoc.merge.relationship(p, 'Test', {}, {}, echk, {}) YIELD rel RETURN p, echk, rel

I have 33 people with "Shirley' and 33 relationships are getting created with that REC. However, there should be no relationship because personcnt <> 1. When I just write 

OPTIONAL MATCH (p:Person) WHERE p.name CONTAINS 'Shirley'  return count(p) -> I get 33 as the value. I am not sure why my where condition is not kicking in. 

 

[Michael Hunger]

Best to send questions like this to community.neo4j.com

In general if you aggregate, you must not add the thing you want to count / aggregate on as an aggregation key, you can use collect on those.

MATCH (echk:REC {id: 'abcdef'})

OPTIONAL MATCH (p:Person) WHERE p.name CONTAINS 'Shirley' 

WITH collect(p) as people, echk, count(p) as personcnt where personcnt=1 

UNWIND people as p
MERGE (p)-[:TEST]->(echk)

You don't need apoc.merge.relationship for your case you can just use cypher.

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[Shanthi Viswanathan]

Thanks much Michael - your explanation makes sense.

I am using dynamic relationship because this is part of a cypher where my role  (the "Test" I have in my example) is dynamic. 

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