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cursor.limit()¶
-
cursor.
limit
()¶ Use the
cursor.limit()
method on a cursor to specify the maximum number of documents the cursor will return.cursor.limit()
is analogous to theLIMIT
statement in a SQL database.Note
You must apply
cursor.limit()
to the cursor before retrieving any documents from the database.Use
cursor.limit()
to maximize performance and prevent MongoDB from returning more results than required for processing.A
cursor.limit()
value of 0 (e.g. “.limit(0)
”) is equivalent to setting no limit.