Table of Contents

54.1.Query Handling as a Complex Optimization Problem

54.2.Genetic Algorithms

54.3.Genetic Query Optimization (GEQO) in PostgreSQL

54.3.1.Generating Possible Plans withGEQO

54.3.2.Future Implementation Tasks forPostgreSQLGEQO

54.4.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.