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by orf 1398 days ago
Words can have two meanings. Cursor pagination and key set pagination do indeed refer to the same thing.

database cursors are a different thing.

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You are agreeing with the parent comment with a tone of disagreement.

They never said what "cursor pagination" is or used the term at all. In this chain of comments, yours is the first one to use the term.

The comment you're replying to, like the original comment in this chain, merely said that this post is not about using "database cursors" for pagination. Which is correct, and you agreed that this is a different thing.

Yes words can have two meanings, but given the similarity of context between these two meanings, calling this cursor pagination is not a great idea. It screams of someone that didn’t know about database cursors (which is only one implementation method) trying to describe a method for web site pagination. I’m not blaming the author here for this, as they likely know the difference. But for a new developer trying to Google this, it will be very confusing.