# PgQue

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Podcast: [Postgres FM](https://stenobird.com/podcast/postgres-fm-5565051)
Published: 2026-05-08T13:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/1ca86d59
Audio file: https://media.transistor.fm/1ca86d59/9e063675.mp3
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Duration seconds: 2840

## Resource

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) https://speakerdeck.com/cyberdemn/rediscovering-pgq Tick frequency tuning https://github.com/NikolayS/PgQue/blob/main/docs/tick-frequency.md ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With credit to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork

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