Neo4J create temp variable within Cypher

Question

So my Top-Level problem is I am trying to return whether a MERGE resulted in the creation of a new Node or not.

In order to do this I was thinking I cou

Answer 1

In simple merging cases like this where maximum one node could be created, a cleaner way to achieve what you are looking for could be checking the result stats. I case of using Bolt API you should check:

results.consume().counters.nodes_created = 1