robin-snt commented :
I’m really sorry, but I left out the versions I had used while being completely certain that I had included them.
I observed this with dgraph v20.03.1 and v20.03.3. I tried the master build and it does indeed work, but master right now contains the commit that cleans up the facet mess that’s been going on ever since facet behaviour was broken initially.
The commit on master that cleans up everything: [BREAKING] Introduce new facets format (#5424) · dgraph-io/dgraph@b16b611 · GitHub
Here’s the discussion: Facets format in mutation requests and query responses