As long as it can be used to "seek" directly into where the last page ended. The problem with offset and limit is that you have to actually find the previous N

As long as it can be used to "seek" directly into where the last page ended. The problem with offset and limit is that you have to actually find the previous N results in order to get the N+1th. But with a cursor you can just "continue". (when I say "seek" I mean use indexes. I'm comparing to listing a tar file (requires reading the whole thing to find the file in the middle) vs zipfile (seek to where the file is, and read))