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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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,687 | Automata Theory for Database Theoreticians | 1989 | PODS | 0.0001090256 |
| 2,343 | Inference of Monotonicity Constraints in Datalog Programs (Extended Abstract) | 1989 | PODS | 8.9968717e-05 |
| 3,440 | Inference of Inequality Constraints in Logic Programs (Extended Abstract) | 1991 | PODS | 7.0897313e-05 |
| 4,138 | Safety of Datalog Queries over Infinite Databases | 1989 | PODS | 6.4127061e-05 |
| 4,343 | Languages for Relational Databases over Interpreted Structures | 1997 | PODS | 6.2665123e-05 |
| 4,376 | Safe Constraint Queries | 1998 | PODS | 6.233754e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 79 | An Amateur's Introduction to Recursive Query Processing Strategies | 1986 | SIGMOD | 0.00056010993 |
| 105 | Inclusion dependencies and their interaction with functional dependencies (Extended abstract) | 1982 | PODS | 0.00049082041 |
| 173 | Decidability And Expressiveness Aspects Of Logic Queries | 1987 | PODS | 0.00038731283 |
| 1,049 | Safety of Recursive Horn Clauses With Infinite Relations | 1987 | PODS | 0.00014426218 |
| 1,836 | Improving Database Schemes by Adding Attributes | 1983 | PODS | 0.00010355915 |
| 2,064 | Functional and Inclusion Dependencies: A Graph Theoretic Approach | 1984 | PODS | 9.6485054e-05 |
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| 8,265 | Checking Consistency of Database Constraints: a Logical Basis | 1986 | VLDB | 4.5412367e-05 |
| 1,489 | On the Decidability of Query Containment under Constraints | 1998 | PODS | 0.00011687823 |
| 13,038 | Coping with Complexity in Automated Reasoning about Database Systems | 1985 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
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| 6,380 | Finite Queries do not Have Effective Syntax | 1995 | PODS | 5.0841675e-05 |
| 4,138 | Safety of Datalog Queries over Infinite Databases | 1989 | PODS | 6.4127061e-05 |
| 3,856 | Relational Specifications of Infinite Query Answers | 1989 | SIGMOD | 6.6938945e-05 |
| 4,376 | Safe Constraint Queries | 1998 | PODS | 6.233754e-05 |
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