LIMIT vs Performance

Nikolay and Michael discuss LIMIT in Postgres — what it does, how it can help with performance, and an interesting example where adding it can actually hurt performance(!)

Here are some links to things they mentioned:
• LIMIT considered harmful in PostgreSQL (Twitter thread by Christophe Pettus) twitter.com/Xof/status/1413542818673577987
• LIMIT and OFFSET (docs) postgresql.org/docs/current/queries-limit.html
• No OFFSET (by Markus Winand) use-the-index-luke.com/no-offset
• LIMIT clause (docs) postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-select.html#SQ…

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