When using MongoPaginationPartitioner (by size or count), the request used to calculate partitions is using a projection on partition key
val newHead: Option[BsonValue] = connector.withCollectionDo(readConfig, { coll: MongoCollection[BsonDocument] => Option(coll.find() .filter(Filters.gte(partitionKey, preBsonValue)) .skip(skipValue) .projection(Projections.include(partitionKey)) .sort(Sorts.ascending(partitionKey)) .first()).map(doc => doc.get(partitionKey)) })
If partitionKey is not _id, projection is not excluding explicitly _id, which make the query not covered by the partition key index and thus not optimized.