alt Hacker News2026 is the year of the Postgres queue! (DBOS[0], pgQue[1]) It's awesome that the community is contributing this and giving us the option to use it.
As an ex-app engineer though, I kind of prefer my queue logic to be in code, in Git, but maybe with the right tooling, you can change my mind. :)
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+1 on "prefer my queue logic to be in code". The <shape> of my data doesn't change nearly as much as the actions I need to take on it; it doesn't make sense to me why I'd want to do a migration (which is an all or nothing op btw) every time I want to change how I behave with my data. This is also why I absolutely abhorred having to make postgres functions to do anything remotely non-trivial on Supabase.
That said, we did hand-build a simple job queue (just lock, poll, reserve on a column, poll and update reservation to mark job done) on top of postgres at my previous startup. Something like pgque would have made that much more polished.
> As an ex-app engineer though, I kind of prefer my queue logic to be in code, in Git, but maybe with the right tooling, you can change my mind. :)
I mean, we used to keep our SQL code in git too for projects where we had DB triggers. I think some were even shoved in there via Django migrations just to let someone setup locally and have the triggers available in their local database.
same but this could be useful for db level things that are not business logic related.
i have always had maintenance packages for this type of stuff. if i could deploy them alongside the database itself that could be kind of cool.
but yeah i agree with you that i do prefer having this in the code layer.
Yeah, it's harder to work on, or maybe just different, but I guess the docs, info(searchable docs, posts, experience), and tooling are lacking.
What's the story for version control, debugging, testing, releasing? It'd be cool to have everything together for data locality and simplifying the stack, but it feels you'd lose a lot of useful knowledge about how to do stuff "properly".