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How DataFusion Stops Reading After Ten Rows: Limit Pushdown, Limit Absorption, and the Volcano Model's Batch Problem

Oct 21, 2026 8 min read Jay Hubbert

DataFusion pushes LIMIT into operators that can absorb it, so a ten-row query stops the scan, the join and the sort after ten rows instead of after a full 8192-row batch.

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