From: | Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [RFC] CREATE QUEUE (log-only table) for londiste/pgQ ccompatibility |
Date: | 2012-10-22 19:58:37 |
Message-ID: | 5085A56D.2090707@nasby.net |
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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 queue features.
It certainly sounds like a useful framework to have.
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Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect jim(at)nasby(dot)net
512.569.9461 (cell) http://jim.nasby.net
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