• DocumentCode
    728979
  • Title

    The Hunt for a Red Spider: Conjunctive Query Determinacy Is Undecidable

  • Author

    Gogacz, Tomasz ; Marcinkowski, Jerzy

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    6-10 July 2015
  • Firstpage
    281
  • Lastpage
    292
  • Abstract
    We solve a well known, long-standing open problem in relational databases theory, showing that the conjunctive query determinacy problem (in its "unrestricted" version) is undecidable.
  • Keywords
    decidability; query processing; relational databases; conjunctive query determinacy problem; relational database theory; undecidable problem; Context; Databases; Head; Image color analysis; Legged locomotion; Periodic structures; Standards; chase; conjunctive queries; determinacy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Logic in Computer Science (LICS), 2015 30th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Kyoto
  • ISSN
    1043-6871
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LICS.2015.35
  • Filename
    7174889