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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
hf9076d8528d40613
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1993
Pagerank
0.00030462671
Overall Rank
125 | 99.17%
DOI
10.1145/170035.170078

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Authors

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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34 The Design Of Postgres 1986 SIGMOD 0.00049129967
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