LIMIT vs Performance

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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) https://twitter.com/Xof/status/1413542818673577987
LIMIT and OFFSET (docs) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/queries-limit.html
No OFFSET (by Markus Winand) https://use-the-index-luke.com/no-offset
LIMIT clause (docs) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-select.html#SQL-LIMIT

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