Fast Paginate for Laravel

Description

Offset/Limit Pagination Implementation

Fast Paginate provides a high‑performance limit/offset pagination macro for Laravel that can replace the standard paginate methods.

The package employs a SQL technique similar to a “deferred join” to accelerate queries. A deferred join postpones accessing requested columns until after the offset and limit have been applied. In this implementation, no actual join is performed; instead, a WHERE IN clause with a subquery is used. The subquery can be optimized with specific indexes for maximum speed, and its results are then used to retrieve the complete rows.

The performance gains vary depending on your dataset, but this approach enables the database to examine only as much data as necessary to fulfill the user’s request.

Creator

Aaron Francis
@aarondfrancis