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PgQue – Zero-bloat Postgres queue built on top of on battle-proven Skype's PgQ. One SQL file to install, pg_cron to tick https://pgque.dev

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2026-04-18 · latest 2026-07-30

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  1. …higher latency), but they're fine for most use cases. Previously discussed on HN here [2]. [1] https://github.com/NikolayS/pgque [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817349
    comment by atombender · 2026-07-30 · in Making Postgres queues scale
  2. …If you have hundreds like in your example...might as well use sqlite. There's great projects like https://github.com/NikolayS/pgque and https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/4/absurd-in-production/ that give you even some tooling around that.
    comment by dewey · 2026-06-24 · in PostgreSQL is enough (2024)
  3. …Git, but maybe with the right tooling, you can change my mind. :) [0]: https://www.dbos.dev/ [1]: https://github.com/NikolayS/pgque
    comment by levkk · 2026-06-05 · in pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution
  4. …alternative for postgres as queue (actually more like kafka log), I like what pgque does https://github.com/NikolayS/pgque rather than using select for updates and other semantic, it uses snapshot and table truncate to reduce bloat. I…
    comment by banditelol · 2026-05-29 · in Building durable workflows on Postgres
  5. …RabbitMQ or ActiveMQ in certain cases. Agreed the "queue" naming is historical and a bit loose -- https://github.com/NikolayS/pgque/issues/70
    comment by samokhvalov · 2026-04-19 · in PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue