Product wants every paginated list response to include total_count. The biggest table has 200 million rows and most lists are filtered. What are the options, their costs, and what do you ship?

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Product wants every paginated list response to include total_count. The biggest table has 200 million rows and most lists are filtered. What are the options, their costs, and what do you ship?

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