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On the Complexity of the Containment Problem for Conjunctive Queries with Built-in Predicates

Summary: Containment for safe conjunctive queries with != is Pi2^p-complete; the same syntactic threshold as pure CQs applies—each DB predicate occurring ≤2 in Q1 yields coNP, ≥3 yields Pi2^p. Q2 acyclicity doesn’t help, and fixed-query equivalence can be DP-complete. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
1146
Venue
PODS
Year
1998
Pagerank
6.4968603e-05
Overall Rank
4,048 | 71.84%
DOI
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