As a user, I would like to group by "value" instead of just edges.

[MichelDiz]

Experience Report

This issue can be solved by #5335 if we don't wanna do any specific approach for it some how.

We wanna see if this topic is popular or not. Please, share your use cases and "vote" this.

What you wanted to do

Run the groupby func in value edges.

https://dgraph.io/docs/query-language/#groupby

What you actually did

See https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/suggestions-to-improve-groupby/4630

Why that wasn't great, with examples

See https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/suggestions-to-improve-groupby/4630

Any external references to support your case

This issue is similar but it is related to LIST TYPE #4170
See this questions https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/how-to-groupby-date/3040
There are other questions which I don't remember the link, but are several.

[MichelDiz]

This was partially fixed by #7746
But needs improvement

[MichelDiz]

I have added a Cherry-pick PR #8550 that would be a potential fix for this issue.

I will wait the PR be merged to test if it address this issue completely.