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> who can blame a novice developer/DB user for making the mistake of thinking that LIMIT and OFFSET are a good solution, really? Who else is to blame? Should e
by jlg23 9y ago
> who can blame a novice developer/DB user for making the mistake of thinking that LIMIT and OFFSET are a good solution, really?
Who else is to blame? Should every vendor turn the documentation into a textbook on relational databases and their intrinsic properties?
- nothrabannosir 9y agoGood documentation, useful to the humans reading it in actual, real life? Solving the actual problem they’re having and not just “technically correct” answering the exact question they asked? One can only hope.
- jerf 9y agoI'm asking for a note about an extremely common performance issue to be added to the documentation. Any database documentation worth it's salt is full of performance notes already. It hardly seems like there's a slippery slope down to... whatever it is you seem to fear here.