Does order in a DQL query matter?

[MichelDiz]

@rahst12

Result: I found that the query was counting every “myNode” including the ones with name John.

This is expected. This is an edge count. So line 1 and 2 are independent.

@rahst12

I changed the count to include the filter:

This is not the recommended way. We don’t have any reference to this usage in docs. So anything not documented is just bug or adventures.

The recomended would be.

{  
   var(func: eq(isRootNode, true)) {
      MN as myNode
   }
   myNodeTotal(func: uid(MN)) {
        count(uid)
  }
   myNodeNoBob(func: uid(MN)) @filter(NOT eq(name, "Bob")) {
        count(uid)
  }
}

@rahst12

I thought maybe the count would only count the myNodes that had been filtered above it.

This shouldn’t happen. Cuz they are independent. It could be correlated if you use variables.