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  Why (offset, limit) is slow in database select?

Starting from a problemFive years ago when I was working at Tencent, I found that MySQL request speed was very slow in the pagination scenario. With only 100,000 data, a select query on a single machine took about 2-3 seconds. I asked my mentor why, and he asked in return, "In an indexing scenario, what is the time complexity to get the nth largest number in MySQL?"The pursuit of the answerConfirming the scenarioAssuming there is an index on the "status" column, a query like "select * from table where status = xx limit 10 offset 10000" will be very slow. Even with a small amount of data, there...

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