Re: [RFC] CREATE QUEUE (log-only table) for londiste/pgQ ccompatibility - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim Nasby
Subject Re: [RFC] CREATE QUEUE (log-only table) for londiste/pgQ ccompatibility
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Msg-id 5085A56D.2090707@nasby.net
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In response to Re: [RFC] CREATE QUEUE (log-only table) for londiste/pgQ ccompatibility  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On 10/19/12 1:26 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> What I'm saying is, we'll get nowhere promoting an application queue
> which is permanently inferior to existing, popular open source software.
>   My advice: Forget about the application queue aspects of this.  Focus
> on making it work for replication and matviews, which are already hard
> use cases to optimize.
>
> If someone can turn this feature into the base for a distributed
> queueing system later, then great.  But let's not complicate this
> feature by worrying about a use case it may never fulfill.

And as someone else mentioned... we should call this a stream and not a queue, since this would be lacking in many
queuefeatures.
 

It certainly sounds like a useful framework to have.
-- 
Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect                   jim@nasby.net
512.569.9461 (cell)                         http://jim.nasby.net



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