PostgreSQL

Created: by Pradeep Gowda Updated: Feb 07, 2024 Tagged: postgresql · databases · sql

PostgreSQL is Enough

Learning PostgreSQL

Articles

Migrating and upgrading PostgreSQL

Tips and tricks

This is one of the things PG does a good job. Keeping notes.

Using PostgreSQL as a queue

So that’s what we built: a new queue backed by a single, and surprisingly simple, Postgres table. Our publishers write to it. Our consumers (workers) read from it. We maintain things like queue ordering by adding an ORDER BY clause in the query that consumers use to read from it (groundbreaking, we know). And we guarantee that jobs won’t be picked up by more than one worker through simple read/write row-level locks. The new system is actually kind of absurdly simple when you look at it. And that’s a good thing. It’s also behaved flawlessly so far.

It comes with several, significant upsides for our team. For one, the application state is no longer spread out over two systems (RabbitMQ storage and Postgres). It’s now centralized in our application database. This makes disaster recovery that much easier, and increases the resiliency of the overall system by removing moving pieces.

To make all of this run smoothly, we enqueue and dequeue thousands of jobs every day.

(the load isn’t all that big)

PostgreSQL and ML

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PostgreSQL on MacOS

Installing PostgreSQL on a Mac with Homebrew - Daily Dev Tips – includes tips on how to create a non-postgres user.