An Axiomatic Approach to Deciding Query Safety in Deductive Databases
Summary: Propose supersafety for Horn-clause queries by abstracting function symbols into infinite relations with finiteness constraints. Prove supersafety is axiomatizable and decidable, yielding an effective decision procedure that captures a large, nontrivial subset of safe queries. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,688 | Automata Theory for Database Theoreticians | 1989 | PODS | 0.00010913301 |
| 2,339 | Inference of Monotonicity Constraints in Datalog Programs (Extended Abstract) | 1989 | PODS | 9.005745e-05 |
| 3,435 | Inference of Inequality Constraints in Logic Programs (Extended Abstract) | 1991 | PODS | 7.0966834e-05 |
| 4,136 | Safety of Datalog Queries over Infinite Databases | 1989 | PODS | 6.4188795e-05 |
| 4,346 | Languages for Relational Databases over Interpreted Structures | 1997 | PODS | 6.2725564e-05 |
| 4,379 | Safe Constraint Queries | 1998 | PODS | 6.2397591e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77 | An Amateur's Introduction to Recursive Query Processing Strategies | 1986 | SIGMOD | 0.00057043861 |
| 104 | Inclusion dependencies and their interaction with functional dependencies (Extended abstract) | 1982 | PODS | 0.00048766186 |
| 172 | Decidability And Expressiveness Aspects Of Logic Queries | 1987 | PODS | 0.00038808816 |
| 1,051 | Safety of Recursive Horn Clauses With Infinite Relations | 1987 | PODS | 0.00014440736 |
| 1,849 | Improving Database Schemes by Adding Attributes | 1983 | PODS | 0.00010329397 |
| 2,058 | Functional and Inclusion Dependencies: A Graph Theoretic Approach | 1984 | PODS | 9.6585264e-05 |
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| 1,490 | On the Decidability of Query Containment under Constraints | 1998 | PODS | 0.00011699154 |
| 8,269 | Checking Consistency of Database Constraints: a Logical Basis | 1986 | VLDB | 4.5455963e-05 |
| 13,027 | Coping with Complexity in Automated Reasoning about Database Systems | 1985 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 172 | Decidability And Expressiveness Aspects Of Logic Queries | 1987 | PODS | 0.00038808816 |
| 2,712 | Query Processing in Deductive Databases with Incomplete Information | 1986 | SIGMOD | 8.2488274e-05 |
| 6,382 | Finite Queries do not Have Effective Syntax | 1995 | PODS | 5.0890445e-05 |
| 4,136 | Safety of Datalog Queries over Infinite Databases | 1989 | PODS | 6.4188795e-05 |
| 3,853 | Relational Specifications of Infinite Query Answers | 1989 | SIGMOD | 6.7004022e-05 |
| 4,379 | Safe Constraint Queries | 1998 | PODS | 6.2397591e-05 |
| 1,051 | Safety of Recursive Horn Clauses With Infinite Relations | 1987 | PODS | 0.00014440736 |