https://grey-panther.net/2008/10/efficient-sql-pagination-method.html Just another WordPress site Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:18:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://grey-panther.net/2008/10/efficient-sql-pagination-method.html#comment-130 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:18:38 +0000 https://grey-panther.net/?p=676#comment-130 Hard to understand

]]> https://grey-panther.net/2008/10/efficient-sql-pagination-method.html#comment-643 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:12:23 +0000 https://grey-panther.net/?p=676#comment-643 @izenmania: very true. The (silent) assumption behind this post was that you have one (or few) columns which you would like to sort/paginate by (a creation date for example). In case you have more complicated situations (like ranking results based on some – dynamically generated – relevance score), this method can not be used.

]]> https://grey-panther.net/2008/10/efficient-sql-pagination-method.html#comment-645 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:02:24 +0000 https://grey-panther.net/?p=676#comment-645 As with any method that utilizes an index for sorting, this also runs into trouble in circumstances where the sort column is user-selected, because it can require more indexes than is practical (assuming that there are a frequent inserts which will be slowed down by the indexes).

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