Queues in Postgres
Nikolay and Michael discuss queues in Postgres — the pros and cons vs dedicated queuing tools, and some tips for scaling.
A couple of apologies-in-advance:
A couple of apologies-in-advance:
- Near the end, we incorrectly say "idempotent" when we meant "stateless", and also 50 TPS instead of 500 TPS
- We also had a couple of audio issues, sorry!
Here are links to a few things we mentioned:
- Recent discussion on Hacker News
- PgQ
- What is SKIP LOCKED (blog post by Craig Ringer)
- autovacuum
- Postgres queues (blog post by Brandur)
- pg_repack
- Our episode on partitioning
- Nikolay’s Twitter poll
- Subtransactions Considered Harmful (blog post by Nikolay)
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- Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai
- Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
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- Jessie Draws for the amazing artwork
