That's great news! Our codebase relies pretty heavily on the MATCH (user:user) syntax, so I will most likely just hold out at 2.1.3 until the next version comes along.
Thanks for the help Michael :) On Monday, 23 June 2014 13:15:21 UTC+2, Michael Hunger wrote: > > Hi John, > > sorry this has been a well-intended change in 2.1.2 that was added to > protect people from using a node with two different labels resulting in > zero results. > > Unfortunately it has many not so good side-effects. So we'll probably roll > it back in the next version. > > Until then please use: > > START user = node(5) > WHERE user:user > RETURN user > > > Am 23.06.2014 um 13:01 schrieb Jon Packer <con...@jonpacker.com > <javascript:>>: > > Hi there! > > I'm having this problem in the versions above 2.1. It's no longer possible > to use the START clause in conjunction with labels—using labels to enforce > the type of the node. > > For example, this: > > START user = node(5) > MATCH (user:user) > RETURN user > > now fails with "Cannot match on a pattern containing only already bound > identifiers". The purpose of this query would be to enforce that node(5) > is of type :user. > > Is this a bug, or intended? If it is intended, is there any way to reform > this query to do the same thing in a 2.1 compatible way? Using MATCH to do > it would be preferable, as my use case (seraph-model > <https://github.com/brikteknologier/seraph-model>) sometimes allows for > properties to be added to the MATCH statement. > > Beyond that, it just seems like a strange restriction to have. While the > following might be a silly query, I see no clear reason why it should fail > and spit out an error. To the uninitiated this would seem like a perfectly > valid query. > > MATCH (user { name: 'Johanna Kurkela' }) > MATCH (user:user) > RETURN user > > >> Cannot match on a pattern containing only already bound identifiers > (line 2, column 1) > "MATCH (user:user) " > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Neo4j" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to neo4j+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Neo4j" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neo4j+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
