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

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.
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Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect                   jim@nasby.net
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