Data Constructors: On the Integration of Rules and Relations

Summary: Proposes constructor: a language construct to define new relations from existing ones by recursion, via least fixed point. Bridges rule-based and relational paradigms; integrates typed modular languages, enabling set-oriented, efficient implementation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7703
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1985
Pagerank: 0.00012385136
Overall Rank: 1,360 | 90.55%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
44	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00071838587
175	Traversal Recursion: A Practical Approach to Supporting Recursive Applications	1986	SIGMOD	0.00038338694

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
69	Implementation of Integrity Constraints and Views by Query Modification	1975	SIGMOD	0.00060379399
162	Some High-level Language Constructs for Data of Type Relation	1977	SIGMOD	0.00039758372
490	Horn Clauses and the Fixpoint Query Hierarchy	1982	PODS	0.00022016773
2,708	CONSTRAINT EQUATIONS: Declarative Expression of Constraints With Automatic Enforcement	1984	VLDB	8.2531108e-05
3,270	Language Support for Office Modelling	1984	VLDB	7.2993238e-05
5,093	Range Nesting: A Fast Method To Evaluate Quantified Queries	1983	SIGMOD	5.7026228e-05

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