A real, documented pagination wall in production, a real Postgres benchmark, and a breakdown of the actual mechanism behind why OFFSET falls apart at scale — and what to use instead.
You've paginated through a big result set before. Page 2 loads fine. Page 200 takes a beat. Nobody stops to ask why — until something like this shows up instead of a slow page:
{
"message": "Only the first 1000 search results are available.",
"documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/v3/search/",
"status": "422"
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