leontrolski

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I'm Oliver Russell , a Python dev (amongst other things) based in London, reach me at ojhrussell[at]gmail.com, subscribe via rss , read my CV .

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Postgres as queue

2024224 points119 comments Databases & Data details

The team I've been working in for the last year or so have had great success using Postgres-as-queue. We've managed to avoid the following:

Postgres locks explorer

2024130 points9 comments Databases & Data details

All of the data in this page is derived from these tests , so is true by some definition of true. Notable is this test - given an arbitrary SQL statement, it determines via runtime inspection which locks are taken.