Re:PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue
by samokhvalov on Sunday April 19, 2026 @12:45AM
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Fair. I had an attempt to clarify it in README that PgQue is "closer to Kafka topics than to a job queue" -- per-subscription cursor on a shared event log, no ACK-delete, no visibility timeout.
That makes PgQue an event-streaming tool, not an MQ. For SKIP LOCKED systems like PGMQ, PgQue can still be a replacement in certain cases – similarly to how Kafka can be a replacement for RabbitMQ or ActiveMQ in certain cases.
That makes PgQue an event-streaming tool, not an MQ. For SKIP LOCKED systems like PGMQ, PgQue can still be a replacement in certain cases – similarly to how Kafka can be a replacement for RabbitMQ or ActiveMQ in certain cases.
Agreed the "queue" naming is historical and a bit loose -- https://github.com/NikolayS/pgque/issues/70