Why You Shouldn't Use OFFSET and LIMIT For Your Pagination
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Gone are the days when we wouldn’t need to worry about database performance optimization.

If you are wondering why lemmy is moving away from offset pagination since 0.19, here is a nice article about it

  • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I have my doubts about the technique, but it could be useful in certain controlled situations

    This is completely uncontroversial advice and has been for 30 years. What are your doubts exactly?

    I’d go further: if you see a query that uses “offset” on a non-trivial production DB something is very, very wrong.

    Of course, the trick is that you need to make sure you have indexes for all sort orders you need to display, but that’s obvious.