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Re:Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows by bootsmann on Thursday May 28, 2026 @04:07PM (#48314686)
Advisory locks are preferred for this anyways because holding a lot of SELECT FOR UPDATE doesn’t scale too well.
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Re:Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows by sgt on Friday May 29, 2026 @01:13AM (#48319315)
I need to do proper benchmarks on SELECT FOR UPDATE..SKIP LOCKED - but I suspect thousands per second. Some claimed higher than 10k/sec, but we'll see
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