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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
2709
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1993
Pagerank
0.00030378624
Overall Rank
132 | 99.10%
DOI
10.1145/170035.170078

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{hellerstein_sigmod93,
        title = {{Predicate Migration: Optimizing Queries with Expensive Predicates}},
        author = {Hellerstein, Joseph M. and Stonebraker, Michael},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '93},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/170035.170078},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/170035.170078},
        year = {1993}
}

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675 Optimizing Queries over Multimedia Repositories 1996 SIGMOD 0.00015080025
677 Query Optimization in the Presence of Foreign Functions 1993 VLDB 0.00015065909
771 Conjunctive Selection Conditions in Main Memory 2002 PODS 0.00014161995
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1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0024089429
34 The Design Of Postgres 1986 SIGMOD 0.00049302774
55 Statistical Estimators for Relational Algebra Expressions 1988 PODS 0.00040746149
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