Thomas Munro <munro(at)ip9(dot)org> writes:
> A common usage for this is to increase parallelism in systems with
> multiple workers taking jobs from a queue. I've used it for this
> purpose myself on another RDBMS, having seen it recommended for some
> types of work queue implementation. It may have other uses.
To attack this problem in PostgreSQL we also have PGQ, which is
Skytools3 has support for cooperative consumers.
Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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