Table of Contents

60.1. Query Handling as a Complex Optimization Problem

60.2. Genetic Algorithms

60.3. Genetic Query Optimization (GEQO) in PostgreSQL

60.3.1. Generating Possible Plans with GEQO

60.3.2. Future Implementation Tasks for PostgreSQL GEQO

60.4. Further Reading

Author

Written by Martin Utesch (<utesch@aut.tu-freiberg.de >) for the Institute of Automatic Control at the University of Mining and Technology in Freiberg, Germany.