Functions Are Data Too (Defunctionalization for PL/SQL)

Summary: Introduces first-class, persistent functions for PL/SQL, enabling runtime construction, table storage, and higher-order passing of function values. A lightweight defunctionalization transformation implements this atop existing relational DBMS infrastructure, unlocking new query idioms without engine changes. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10764
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,264 | 15.86%
DOI: 10.14778/2536274.2536287

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Authors

1. Torsten Grust (University of Tübingen)
2. Nils Schweinsberg (University of Tübingen)
3. Alexander Ulrich (University of Tübingen)

BibTeX Citation

@article{grust_vldb13,
        title = {{Functions Are Data Too (Defunctionalization for PL/SQL)}},
        author = {Grust, Torsten and Schweinsberg, Nils and Ulrich, Alexander},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '13},
        volume = {6},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1214--1225},
        doi = {10.14778/2536274.2536287},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2536274.2536287},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,684	Compiling PL/SQL Away	2020	CIDR	8.25952e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
455	Differential dataflow	2013	CIDR	0.00018133241

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