Executing this query with Cypher :
MERGE (n:PIPELINE_CONFIG) ON CREATE SET n.pipelines = ["miaou"] ON MATCH SET n.pipelines = ["miaou"] RETURN n.pipelines as pipelines
Should just overwrite the first found (here create one or merge/replace the only other/first found node existing) node PIPELINE_CONFIG.
It works with old cypher engine, but with new one, it just creates a new node again and again.