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title: "Genetic Query Optimizer"
id: geqo
pg_version: "20devel"
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# Genetic Query Optimizer

## Table of Contents

- [61.1. Query Handling as a Complex Optimization Problem](geqo-intro.md)
- [61.2. Genetic Algorithms](geqo-intro2.md)
- [61.3. Genetic Query Optimization (GEQO) in PostgreSQL](geqo-pg-intro.md)
  - [61.3.1. Generating Possible Plans with GEQO](geqo-pg-intro.md#geqo-pg-intro-gen-possible-plans)
  - [61.3.2. Future Implementation Tasks for PostgreSQL GEQO](geqo-pg-intro.md#geqo-future)
- [61.4. Further Reading](geqo-biblio.md)


> [!NOTE]
> 
> 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.