Cache.modify() triggers unexpected merge

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Hi,

I am having an issue while modifying cache depending on a mutation’s results.
Here is the related mutation:

const [mutationTrigger, mutationResult] = useMutation(MARK_MESSAGES_AS_READ, {
    fetchPolicy: 'no-cache',
    onCompleted({ mark_messages_as_read }) {
        mark_messages_as_read.forEach(({ message_uuid, user_uuid }) => {
            getGraphClient().cache.modify({
                id: message_uuid,
                fields: {
                    MESSAGES_READBY_USERs() {
                        return [{ user_uuid }]
                    },
                },
            })
        })
    },
})

I don’t want to cache the results, but I want to update other objects in cache depending on those results.
The issue I have is that the cache update does succeed, I get the updated values for half a second, and then it goes back to old value (an empty array).
As per the warning below, the cache data has been updated (the existing value), and a new incoming array is being merged. I can’t figure out where this empty array comes from, and according to docs modify function should not trigger any merge function.

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Defining the requested merge function doesn’t change anything.

I have tried several things, first with the 'network-only' fetch policy and the cache’s type policies merge functions, then with the update function of the mutation trigger returned by useMutation, with the update function of the hook’s options and finally with a 'no-cache' policy, as per the example above.
It always leads to same result.

Any idea where it could come from?

Thanks,

Martin