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Add FAQ about RDS/Heroku (#357)
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The Citus coordinator node metadata tables contain this information. See :ref:`finding_dist_col`.

Why does pg_relation_size report zero bytes for a distributed table?
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The data in distributed tables lives on the worker nodes (in shards), not on the coordinator. A true measure of distributed table size is obtained as a sum of shard sizes. Citus provides helper functions to query this information. See :ref:`table_size` to learn more.

Can I run Citus on Heroku or Amazon RDS?
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At this time Heroku and Amazon do not support running Citus directly on top of Heroku PostgreSQL or Amazon RDS. It is up to them if/when they enable the Citus extension. If you are looking for something similar, `Citus Cloud <https://www.citusdata.com/product/cloud>`_ is our database-as-a-service which we fully manage for you. It runs on top of AWS (like both RDS and Heroku PostgreSQL) and should provide a very similar product experience, with the addition of Citus' horizontal scaling.

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