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by zozbot234 1117 days ago
> There's nothing in Postgres that knows how to do that

Postgres uses foreign data wrappers and table partitions to achieve sharding of relational databases over many nodes. It's certainly possible to make the FDW layer smarter wrt. being able to distribute certain queries to the shards, including some recursive queries that happen to be of practical interest.