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		taf2 on Nov 24, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MongoDB, count() and the big O it does, if you change your pagination interface to only care if there are more results after this page...

cheald on Nov 24, 2011 [–]

If your pagination interface is simply "Next", then why not skip the count all together, limit(N+1) documents, and offer the "Next" button if the result set is N+1 large?

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