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When LIMIT 9 works but LIMIT 10 hangs

I got a Slack message from colleagues at a major partner. They’d updated their dev environment to support WebSockets, so that Neon’s serverless driver could be used there, but then they’d run into a weird issue. The nub of it was this: This hangs: This works Reproducibly, the query without an ORDER BY ran fine […]