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    <p>I've got a question around why some items are not returning via a Facebook FQL query.</p> <p>The following query:</p> <pre><code>https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=select%20page_id,%20name,%20type,%20fan_count%20from%20page%20where%20name=%27Bauhaus%27%20and%20type%20=%20%27MUSICIAN/BAND%27%20order%20by%20fan_count%20desc </code></pre> <p>Is supposed to return me pages whose name = 'Bauhaus' and type is 'Musician/Band'. The result is:</p> <pre><code>&lt;fql_query_response list="true"&gt; &lt;page&gt; &lt;page_id&gt;186907181359330&lt;/page_id&gt; &lt;name&gt;Bauhaus&lt;/name&gt; &lt;type&gt;MUSICIAN/BAND&lt;/type&gt; &lt;fan_count&gt;1&lt;/fan_count&gt; &lt;/page&gt; &lt;page&gt; &lt;page_id&gt;175833025805207&lt;/page_id&gt; &lt;name&gt;Bauhaus&lt;/name&gt; &lt;type&gt;MUSICIAN/BAND&lt;/type&gt; &lt;fan_count&gt;0&lt;/fan_count&gt; &lt;/page&gt; &lt;/fql_query_response&gt; </code></pre> <p>If I then add a constraint, page_id=109194179106090, which doesn't appear in the above list: <code>https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=select%20page_id,%20name,%20type,%20fan_count%20from%20page%20where%20page_id%20=%20109194179106090</code>, I get this result:</p> <pre><code>&lt;fql_query_response list="true"&gt; &lt;page&gt; &lt;page_id&gt;109194179106090&lt;/page_id&gt; &lt;name&gt;Bauhaus&lt;/name&gt; &lt;type&gt;MUSICIAN/BAND&lt;/type&gt; &lt;fan_count&gt;100527&lt;/fan_count&gt; &lt;/page&gt; &lt;/fql_query_response&gt; </code></pre> <p>Why should adding a constraint return me an item that isn't in the original query?</p>
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