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by dinkledunk 1395 days ago
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.

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