Thank you for this clarification. I was confused by the statement: When using MERGE on full patterns, the behavior is that either the whole pattern matches, or the whole pattern is created. MERGE will not partially use existing patterns — it’s all or nothing. If partial matches are needed, this can be accomplished by splitting a pattern up into multiple MERGE clauses.
This seemed to be a 'partial' match since the nodes matched but the relationship did not. So I thought that since the relationship didn't match the whole pattern or 'all' didn't match so both nodes would be created along with the relationship. I was hoping it would work as you described. Thanks again. On Tuesday, April 15, 2014 2:58:16 PM UTC-5, Michael Hunger wrote: > > That's what merge does > > I guess the real problem that I am running into that I hope someone can > help me with is how do I conditionally create a relationship (something > like MERGE) when both of the nodes are known to exist? > > -- > 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 [email protected] <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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
