Introduction

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: 

1. Near the end, we incorrectly say "idempotent" when we meant "stateless", and also 50 TPS instead of 500 TPS
2. 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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