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<section id="predicate-functions">
<h1>Predicate Functions<a class="headerlink" href="#predicate-functions" title="Permalink to this heading"></a></h1>
<p>Predicates are boolean functions that return true or false for a given set of input. They are most commonly used to filter out subgraphs in the WHERE part of a query.</p>
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<h2>Exists(Property)<a class="headerlink" href="#exists-property" title="Permalink to this heading"></a></h2>
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">exists()</span></code> returns <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">true</span></code> if the specified property exists in the node, relationship or map. This is different from the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">EXISTS</span></code> clause.</p>
<p>Syntax: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">exists(property)</span></code></p>
<p>Returns:</p>
<p>An agtype boolean</p>
<p>Arguments:</p>
<table>
<tr>
<td>Name
</td>
<td>Description
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>property
</td>
<td>A property from a vertex or edge
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>Query</p>
<div class="highlight-postgresql notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">SELECT</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span>
<span class="k">FROM</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">cypher</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;graph_name&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">$$</span>
<span class="s"> MATCH (n)</span>
<span class="s"> WHERE exists(n.surname)</span>
<span class="s"> RETURN n.first_name, n.last_name</span>
<span class="s">$$</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">as</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">first_name</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">agtype</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">last_name</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">agtype</span><span class="p">);</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>Results:</p>
<table>
<tr>
<td>first_name
</td>
<td>last_name
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>‘John
</td>
<td>‘Smith’
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>‘Patty’
</td>
<td>‘Patterson’
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" >2 row(s) returned
</td>
</tr>
</table>
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<h2>Exists(Path)<a class="headerlink" href="#exists-path" title="Permalink to this heading"></a></h2>
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">EXISTS(path)</span></code> returns <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">true</span></code> if for the given path, there already exists the given path.</p>
<div class="highlight-postgresql notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">SELECT</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">*</span>
<span class="k">FROM</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">cypher</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;graph_name&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">$$</span>
<span class="s"> MATCH (n)</span>
<span class="s"> WHERE exists((n)-[]-({name: &#39;Willem Defoe&#39;}))</span>
<span class="s"> RETURN n.full_name</span>
<span class="s">$$</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">as</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">full_name</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">agtype</span><span class="p">);</span>
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<p>Results:</p>
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<tr>
<td>full_name
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>‘Toby Maguire'
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>‘Tom Holland’
</td>
</tr>
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<td colspan="2" >2 row(s) returned
</td>
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