Supposing your searches display results which are rows coming from one
specific table, you could create a cache table :
search_id serial primary key
index_n position of this result in the global result set
result_id id of the resulting row.
Then, making a search with 50k results would INSERT INTO cache ... SELECT
FROM search query, with a way to set the index_n column, which can be a
temporary sequence...
Then to display your pages, SELECT from your table with index_n BETWEEN so
and so, and join to the data table.
If you're worried that it might take up too much space : store an integer
array of result_id instead of just a result_id ; this way you insert fewer
rows and save on disk space. Generate it with a custom aggregate... then
just grab a row from this table, it contains all the id's of the rows to
display.
