Select All on large datasets

I've created 40k records for a test run and the page itself times out. Chrome throws up a wait or kill the page when selecting everything. There are a few joins on the data, but nothing major and everything indexed. This might work on production servers with more horsepower, but I don't want to try that.

My solution would be to add another bool that if it's set to true, the select all would return the search + active filters. This way it can handle an enormous dataset and give the developers the exact means to recreate the select all and cut down on wasted memory/load times.

I'd be more than happy to devote some of our developers' time to get this as a feature if it's something you'd like in your code.

The only other viable option I can see is creating a plugin API much as the jQuery data tables does, obviously a lot different.

The issue names no files or tests. Start by locating the select-all implementation and the query path that applies search and active filters, then reproduce the timeout with a large dataset. Done should provide a scalable way to select matching records without exhausting browser or server resources, with coverage for filtered selections.