I'm wondering how you guys have solved this problem before, because I haven't been able to find anything (directly) applicable on CPAN. I need to paginate the results from some SQL queries which may or may not just be simple CDBI methods. (If they aren't, I can always use set_sql to create one.)

Using the canonical Music/CD/Artist setup, essentially what I want to do is search for all CDs by a certain musician with the results split up by page. I've found two direct options, both mentioned by the CDBI Wiki:

• Class::DBI::Pager is marked as obselete because it actually returns the entire dataset and chops it up in memory. While I don't anticipate an extremely large amount of data, I could see 10,000 or 20,000, so this is probably not the best solution.
• Class::DBI::Plugin::Pager is the listed alternative. Unfortunately, it is based on SQL::Abstract, which, as far as I can tell, only works on single tables. Even a fairly simple join like the one I described above is impossible.

Is what I'm doing that unusual? Am I completely missing something? I wondered at one point if this is something I should be doing at the database level, but I'm not even sure what to search for if that's the case. It seems like this would be something that many have run across before, so how did you handle it?

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