diff --git a/go/vt/vtgate/engine/limit.go b/go/vt/vtgate/engine/limit.go
index 29a763238bd..824689d2859 100644
--- a/go/vt/vtgate/engine/limit.go
+++ b/go/vt/vtgate/engine/limit.go
@@ -23,8 +23,6 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"sync"
 
-	"vitess.io/vitess/go/vt/log"
-
 	"vitess.io/vitess/go/vt/sqlparser"
 	"vitess.io/vitess/go/vt/vtgate/evalengine"
 
@@ -100,15 +98,16 @@ func (l *Limit) TryStreamExecute(ctx context.Context, vcursor VCursor, bindVars
 
 	bindVars = copyBindVars(bindVars)
 
-	// When offset is present, we hijack the limit value so we can calculate
-	// the offset in memory from the result of the scatter query with count + offset.
+	// Adjust the upper limit so that the initial fetch includes both the offset and count.
+	// We do this because we want to skip the first `offset` rows locally rather than on the server side.
 	bindVars[UpperLimitStr] = sqltypes.Int64BindVariable(int64(count + offset))
 
 	var mu sync.Mutex
 	err = vcursor.StreamExecutePrimitive(ctx, l.Input, bindVars, wantfields, func(qr *sqltypes.Result) error {
 		mu.Lock()
 		defer mu.Unlock()
-		log.Errorf("LastInsertID: %d InsertIDChanged %t\n", qr.InsertID, qr.InsertIDChanged)
+
+		// If this is the first callback and fields are requested, send the fields immediately.
 		if wantfields && len(qr.Fields) != 0 {
 			if err := callback(&sqltypes.Result{Fields: qr.Fields}); err != nil {
 				return err
@@ -119,17 +118,32 @@ func (l *Limit) TryStreamExecute(ctx context.Context, vcursor VCursor, bindVars
 			return callback(qr)
 		}
 
-		// we've still not seen all rows we need to see before we can return anything to the client
+		// If we still need to skip `offset` rows before returning any to the client:
 		if offset > 0 {
 			if inputSize <= offset {
-				// not enough to return anything yet
+				// not enough to return anything yet, but we still want to pass on metadata such as last_insert_id
 				offset -= inputSize
-				return nil
+				qr.Rows = nil
+				return callback(qr)
 			}
+			// Skip `offset` rows from this batch and reset offset to 0.
 			qr.Rows = qr.Rows[offset:]
 			offset = 0
 		}
 
+		// At this point, we've dealt with the offset. Now handle the count (limit).
+		if count == 0 {
+			// If count is zero, we've fetched everything we need.
+			if !l.RequireCompleteInput && !vcursor.Session().InTransaction() {
+				return io.EOF
+			}
+
+			// If we require the complete input, or we are in a transaction, we cannot return io.EOF early.
+			// Instead, we return empty results as needed until input ends.
+			qr.Rows = nil
+			return callback(qr)
+		}
+
 		// reduce count till 0.
 		resultSize := len(qr.Rows)
 		if count > resultSize {
@@ -143,6 +157,8 @@ func (l *Limit) TryStreamExecute(ctx context.Context, vcursor VCursor, bindVars
 			return err
 		}
 
+		// If we required complete input or are in a transaction, we must not exit early.
+		// We'll return empty batches until the input is done.
 		if l.RequireCompleteInput || vcursor.Session().InTransaction() {
 			return nil
 		}