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Fix Broken hash variable-length-relationships #3187

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion ...ages/scalability/sharded-property-databases/limitations-and-considerations.adoc
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Expand Up @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ MATCH (n:Person)-[k:KNOWS {creationDate: 1268465841718}]->+(m:Person)
RETURN n,k,m
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The more performant version uses a link:{neo4j-docs-base-uri}/cypher-manual/current/patterns/variable-length-patterns/#quantified-relationships[quantified relationship] (`-[]\->+`), which enables batching relationships into sets and then fetching their properties from the different shards, and this is not possible when using the old link:{neo4j-docs-base-uri}/cypher-manual/current/patterns/reference/#variable-length-relationships[variable-length relationship syntax] (`-[*1..]\->`).
The more performant version uses a link:{neo4j-docs-base-uri}/cypher-manual/current/patterns/variable-length-patterns/#quantified-relationships[quantified relationship] (`-[]\->+`), which enables batching relationships into sets and then fetching their properties from the different shards, and this is not possible when using the old link:{neo4j-docs-base-uri}/cypher-manual/current/patterns/reference/variable-length-paths/#variable-length-relationships[variable-length relationship syntax] (`-[*1..]\->`).

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