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Constraints and Redundancy in Datalog

Summary: Introduces two redundancy notions for Datalog—reachability (rules/predicates not on any derivation tree for the query) and irrelevance (based on minimal derivation trees)—and provides algorithms that detect them and build redundancy-free rule‑goal trees. Handles constraint literals, tightly pushes constraints to EDB under stated assumptions, and relates redundancy elimination to uniform-equivalence minimization and magic-set/style constraint-pushing. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
956
Venue
PODS
Year
1992
Pagerank
6.6939005e-05
Overall Rank
3,857 | 73.17%
DOI
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620 Constraint Programming and Database Languages: A Tutorial 1995 PODS 0.00019005954
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976 Answering Queries Using Limited External Query Processors 1996 PODS 0.0001489085
1,302 Query Optimization by Predicate Move-Around 1994 VLDB 0.00012705525
2,830 Equivalence, Query-Reachability, and Satisfiability in Datalog Extensions 1993 PODS 8.054172e-05
2,877 Semantic Query Optimization in Datalog Programs (Extended Abstract) 1995 PODS 7.9715251e-05
3,191 The LyriC Language: Querying Constraint Objects 1995 SIGMOD 7.4112897e-05
4,793 Toward Practical Constraint Databases 1993 VLDB 5.9164359e-05
8,010 Compiling Query Constraints 1994 PODS 4.6065603e-05
12,782 Static Analysis of Intensional Databases in U-Datalog 1996 PODS 4.1945683e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
172 Decidability And Expressiveness Aspects Of Logic Queries 1987 PODS 0.00038808816
200 OPTIMIZING DATALOG PROGRAMS (Extended Abstract) 1987 PODS 0.00035012858
1,688 Automata Theory for Database Theoreticians 1989 PODS 0.00010913301
3,106 Deriving Constraints Among Argument Sizes in Logic Programs (Extended Abstract) 1990 PODS 7.5562924e-05
3,283 Magic Conditions 1990 PODS 7.280826e-05
3,435 Inference of Inequality Constraints in Logic Programs (Extended Abstract) 1991 PODS 7.0966834e-05
7,018 Hard problems for simple logic programs 1990 SIGMOD 4.8602644e-05
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