Decide for Stable Pagination Before OFFSET Starts Lying
Choose a stable pagination strategy using deterministic ordering and, when needed, windowed numbering.
The symptom Agents see duplicate and missing tickets across pages because new rows arrive while OFFSET-based paging is underway. The query order is not stable enough for the UI contract. Framework Stable order → Access path → Page strategy You fix pagination by deciding the ordering contract first and the page mechanism second. Use a deterministic ORDER BY with a tie-breaker. If the product only needs next rows after this one, prefer keyset pagination. If it truly needs numbered pages, keep the sort stable and support it with the right index or windowed numbering. Common trap OFFSET over a non-deterministic…
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