I didn't get the Paginator working yet, but as i understand this is the first of 3 (maybe 2) queries, as described here: <a href="http://docs.doctrine-project.org/en/latest/tutorials/pagination.html">http://docs.doctrine-project.org/en/latest/tutorials/pagination.html</a> It seems that in this first query it is not necessary to SELECT all these columns, so there is an opportunity here for a performance boost when not selecting them. (They still have to be selected in the final qu