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Queueing jobs in Postgres from Node.js like a boss

21 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 1 story, 20 comments · first 2017-07-09 · latest 2025-08-04

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  1. https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet are both on top of Postgres, but I like the SQLite here for a project I have in mind.
    comment by drewbitt · 2025-08-04 · in Show HN: Sidequest.js – Background jobs for Node.js using your database
  2. …« jobification » on some flows and I’d love to have your opinion (possibly biased, but still)! [1] https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss
    comment by nip · 2025-08-04 · in Show HN: Sidequest.js – Background jobs for Node.js using your database
  3. It's polling using javascript timers: https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss/blob/master/src/attorney.j...
    comment by xqzv · 2025-05-31 · in How to run cron jobs in Postgres without extra infrastructure
  4. …* https://github.com/citusdata/pg_cron etc. There are plenty of options to choose from. 0: https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss
    comment by zie · 2025-05-30 · in How to run cron jobs in Postgres without extra infrastructure
  5. What like pg boss for Node? https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss
    comment by loloquwowndueo · 2025-05-11 · in An Introduction to Solid Queue for Ruby on Rails
  6. Another one for Node is PG-Boss ( https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss )
    comment by sali0 · 2024-11-04 · in Do you need Redis? PostgreSQL does queuing, locking, and pub/sub (2021)
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    Pg-boss: Queueing jobs in Postgres from Node.js
    story by wirelesspotat · 2024-08-27 · 0 comments
  8. …(Postgres) with specific guarantees that you can lean on Here's 7 of them just right quick: - https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss - https://github.com/queueclassic/queue_classic - https://github.com/florentx/pgqueue -…
    comment by SOLAR_FIELDS · 2024-08-19 · in Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue
  9. …different from pg-boss[1]? Other than the distributed part it also seems to use skip locked. [1] https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss
    comment by pyrossh · 2024-03-08 · in Show HN: Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue
  10. For running queues on Postgres with Node.js backend(s), I highly recommend https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss . I'm sure it has it scale limits. But if you're one of the 90% of the apps that never needs any kind of scale that a modern…
    comment by nicoburns · 2023-09-24 · in Choose Postgres queue technology
  11. …that implement queueing on top of databases that require very little setup by the user. For example https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss
    comment by nicoburns · 2023-04-12 · in SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
  12. If you don't want to roll your own, look into https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss
    comment by chime · 2023-04-11 · in SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
  13. …with Edge Functions. We haven't started this yet, so I don't have any timelines. [0] pgboss: https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss
    comment by kiwicopple · 2022-08-18 · in Supabase – Realtime: Multiplayer Edition
  14. Both! For context, we're currently using https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss as a task queue on top of postgres and it works great. No need to complicate things with Redis. I believe it's quite straightforward to implement a task queue on…
    comment by nicoburns · 2022-02-26 · in Launch HN: Convoy (YC W22) – Open-source cloud-native webhooks service
  15. If you are using node.js and looking for PgSQL based JobQueue, PgBoss ( https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss ) is a solid one!
    comment by pritambarhate · 2022-01-31 · in Devious SQL: Message Queuing Using Native PostgreSQL
  16. See also: https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss > Queueing jobs in Node.js using PostgreSQL like a boss You can scale much higher in Postgres 14 if you use partitioned tables, both horizontally and in terms of day-to-day stability because old…
    comment by erichocean · 2022-01-29 · in Devious SQL: Message Queuing Using Native PostgreSQL
  17. …to use postgres as a job server with node.js clients, I can highly recommend the pg-boss library ( https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss ). Looks like it just added pub/sub too (yesterday), so I guess you could use it for that too.
    comment by nicoburns · 2021-12-18 · in Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (2019)
  18. …mind adding another service into the mix, I’d probably recommend going with Redis instead. [1] https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss
    comment by fiznool · 2021-06-12 · in Do you really need Redis? How to get away with just PostgreSQL
  19. https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss for node, https://github.com/mbuhot/ecto_job for elixir. I wish all these libraries agreed on a common schema >_<
    comment by floatboth · 2019-11-08 · in System design hack: Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server
  20. There's a few libraries implementing this: https://github.com/mbuhot/ecto_job for Elixir https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss for Node.js
    comment by floatboth · 2019-05-27 · in On SQS
  21. Here's the one using similar approach, but for Node.js. https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss
    comment by elmigranto · 2017-07-09 · in Postgres Job Queues and Failure by MVCC