Generic job for backfilling desired sharding keys
What does this MR do and why?
Add a generic background migration for backfilling desired sharding keys
As part of defining sharding keys for every cell local table, many tables will require their sharding key to be backfilled via a foreign table.
Inheriting from a generic job means the query doesn't need to be rewritten for each column that is backfilled.
The query and specs are adapted from !136800 (merged), which is a previous example we did manually (without using GitLab Housekeeper).
!144128 (closed) is an example of a housekeeper MR that will queue a job that inherits from this one.
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