Server handling of very large dataset ... can server approximate recordsTotal and recordsFiltered

OllieJones

I'm planning to use Datatables with server-side retrieval and hopefully with the Scroller extension to render rows from a very large dataset. The dataset is large enough that counting it accurately is somewhat expensive.

Can I get away with returning approximate recordsTotal and recordsFiltered values? If I know recordsTotal is, say, greater than 100,000 can I just return 100,000? Will that cause problems?

Thanks.