PgQue

From Postgres FM by Nikolay Samokhvalov and Michael Christofides

May 8, 2026 · 47 min · Episode 179

About this episode

Nik and Michael discuss Nik's new project PgQue, a descendent of Skype's PgQ, for running queue-like workloads in Postgres.

Nik and Michael discuss Nik's new project PgQue, a descendent of Skype's PgQ, for running queue-like workloads in Postgres. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Our first episode on Queues in Postgres https://postgres.fm/episodes/queues-in-postgres PgQue https://github.com/NikolayS/pgque HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817349 PgQ https://github.com/pgq/pgq pgmq https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq River https://riverqueue.com Keeping a Postgres queue healthy (blog post by Simeon Griggs / PlanetScale) https://planetscale.com/blog/keeping-a-postgres-queue-healthy Postgres Job Queues & Failure By MVCC (blog post by Brandur) https://brandur.org/postgres-queues My queries to monitor autovacuum (blog post by Laurenz Albe) https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/monitor-autovacuum-my-queries/ SELECT FOR UPDATE considered harmful (blog post by Laurenz Albe) https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/select-for-update-considered-harmful-postgresql/ Christophe Pettus blog post https://thebuild.com/blog/2026/05/03/pgque-two-snapshots-and-a-diff Our episode on pg_ash https://postgres.fm/episodes/pg_ash Rediscovering PgQ (Alexander Kukushkin slides)…

People in this episode

Hosts: Nikolay Samokhvalov, Michael Christofides

Topics covered

Postgres
queues
PgQue
technology
software development

Keywords

PgQue
Postgres
queues
software
technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Skype, PlanetScale, Cybertec, Hacker News, GitHub

Products: PgQue

Books & works: Keeping a Postgres queue healthy, Postgres Job Queues & Failure By MVCC, SELECT FOR UPDATE considered harmful, Rediscovering PgQ, pg_ash, Tick frequency tuning