[jsmith99]

Do you really need to jump to an arbitrary page and land on the exact item? For many applications an approximate jump is fine. If your column is fairly uniformly distributed you can guess the index for any arbitrary page.

[dinkledunk]

Yes, my business users will feel like they don't have sufficient access to their data if they can't.

> If your column is fairly uniformly distributed you can guess the index for any arbitrary page.

I don't think that'll work in a multi-tenancy situation with complex filters.

[waspight]

I bet your users does not always know what is best for them.

[eurasiantiger]

Some people thoroughly enjoy a linear saccade search! See for example any social media app.

It definitely isn’t in the users’ best interest to have any method of scrolling through a lot of records.