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<p dir="auto">It's only efficient if there's also an index on the columns in question and there's a limit to how many of those we want to add, and you also need uniqueness though that can be achieved by appending id to any other cursor field(s) to create a composite cursor.</p>
<p dir="auto">The whole point of moving to cursor based pagination is to get away from offset based pagination so we definitely don't want to go back to that,</p>

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