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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
2648
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1993
Pagerank
0.00042289025
Overall Rank
140 | 99.03%
DOI
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0040465394
37 Statistical Estimators for Relational Algebra Expressions 1988 PODS 0.00075597514
44 The Design Of Postgres 1986 SIGMOD 0.00071946446
102 Of Nests and Trees: A Unified Approach to Processing Queries That Contain Nested Subqueries, Aggregates, and Quantifiers 1987 VLDB 0.00049592627
107 Extensible/Rule Based Query Rewrite Optimization in Starburst 1992 SIGMOD 0.00048363446
144 Optimization of Nonrecursive Queries 1986 VLDB 0.00041430126
667 The Sequoia 2000 Storage Benchmark 1993 SIGMOD 0.00018431008
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2,705 Managing Persistent Objects in a Multi-Level Store 1991 SIGMOD 8.2655619e-05
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