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by phoboslab 1016 days ago
I was very confused about your comment (because the obvious answer is to use a JOIN), but then I realized you're talking about using a sharded database. To which my response is: don't. Just buy more RAM.

I realize that this doesn't scale indefinitely, but for the 99% of us who just need to manage a few billion rows, it's the right answer.