Listen "Queues in Postgres"
Episode Synopsis
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: Near the end, we incorrectly say "idempotent" when we meant "stateless", and also 50 TPS instead of 500 TPSWe also had a couple of audio issues, sorry!Here are links to a few things we mentioned: Recent discussion on Hacker NewsPgQWhat is SKIP LOCKED (blog post by Craig Ringer) autovacuumPostgres queues (blog post by Brandur)pg_repackOur episode on partitioningNikolay’s Twitter pollSubtransactions Considered Harmful (blog post by Nikolay)~~~What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc.If you would like to share this episode, here's a good link (and thank you!)~~~Postgres FM is brought to you by:Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.aiMichael Christofides, founder of pgMustardWith special thanks to:Jessie Draws for the amazing artwork
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