Paginate is always NULL

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1

When attempting to use the Paginator I get the following error:

error calling Pages: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

I am trying to create a page to list all the posts across each category of my site. I have created a posts.md page in content/page/posts.md with the following content:

---
date: "2019-02-24T09:47:59-05:00"
menu: "main"
title: All Posts
socialShare: false
layout: allposts
type: Page
---

I then created a layout file in layous/_defaults/allposts.html with the following content:

{{- define "main" -}}
 {{ $customDateFormat := "02.01.2006" }} {{ with
    .Site.Params.customDateFormat }}{{ $customDateFormat = . }}{{ end }} {{
    $sitetitle := (.Title) }} 
    
    {{ $pages := (where .Site.RegularPages.ByPublishDate.Reverse "Type" "!=" "page") }}
    {{ printf "%#v" (len $pages) }} <!-- Testing, this correctly shows 72 -->
  
    {{ $paginator := .Paginate $pages }}
    {{ printf "%#v" $paginator }} <!--  This shows "(*page.Pager)(nil)" . This shouldn't be null??-->



      <div class="container mt-3 mb-3">
        <div class="mb-3">
            <div class="posts-list">
              <h1>{{ .Title }}</h1>
              <ul>
                {{ range $paginator.Pages }} <!-- compilation error here -->
                <li>
                  <a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}" title="{{ .Title }}">{{ .Title }}</a>
                  <span class="date">{{ .PublishDate.Format $customDateFormat }}</span>
                </li>
                <hr />
                {{ end}}
              </ul>
            </div>
            
        </div>
      </div>
      
      {{ end }}

    ```
2

See https://gohugo.io/templates/pagination/#list-paginator-pages:

This feature is currently only supported on homepage and list pages (i.e., taxonomies and section lists).