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Re:Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows by switchbak on Thursday May 28, 2026 @02:59PM (#48313782)
They've just released an external storage approach to solve the large payload issue. I don't 100% love it (it's bolted on, not an intrinsic part), and it's an early release right now - but you can consider this effectively solved for now.
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Re:Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows by hilariously on Thursday May 28, 2026 @03:14PM (#48313987)
That's good because back in the day if you were putting entire documents in a message queue I would laugh people out the door, putting something in object storage + linking is much more useful (though the distributed system part/backup current state part can be annoying!)
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Re:Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows by selcuka on Thursday May 28, 2026 @11:15PM (#48318570)
Amazon SQS has a similar (1MB per message) size limit.
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Re:Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows by eecc on Friday May 29, 2026 @02:21AM (#48319708)
It’s an EIP, called Claim Check.

https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/patterns/messa...

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