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Predicate Migration: Optimizing Queries with Expensive Predicates

Summary: Predicate Migration builds a theory to move expensive predicates in plans, replacing zero-time restrictions with cost-aware optimization. Algorithm and PostgreSQL show orders-of-magnitude speedups over traditional optimizers, with modest extra cost. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2647
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1993
Pagerank
0.00042299329
Overall Rank
139 | 99.04%
DOI
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0040449103
39 Statistical Estimators for Relational Algebra Expressions 1988 PODS 0.00074745564
44 The Design Of Postgres 1986 SIGMOD 0.00071838587
100 Of Nests and Trees: A Unified Approach to Processing Queries That Contain Nested Subqueries, Aggregates, and Quantifiers 1987 VLDB 0.00049624696
106 Extensible/Rule Based Query Rewrite Optimization in Starburst 1992 SIGMOD 0.00048400734
143 Optimization of Nonrecursive Queries 1986 VLDB 0.00041510555
668 The Sequoia 2000 Storage Benchmark 1993 SIGMOD 0.00018430721
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