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Why can pagination with OFFSET become increasingly expensive for very large tables, and when would you choose cursor/keyset pagination instead?
Tests whether you know OFFSET forces the database to scan and discard all preceding rows before returning a page, and that keyset pagination (WHERE id > last_seen_id) turns that into a constant-cost index seek.
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