PostgreSQL queues done right with PgQ | POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026
Microsoft engineer argues the PgQ extension outperforms SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED for implementing Postgres queues.
“it's quite surprising that many people know PgBouncer but never heard of PgQ”
A Microsoft principal engineer presents a POSETTE 2026 conference talk on why the 20-year-old PgQ extension is a better way to implement in-database queues than naive SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED approaches, which suffer from table bloat and write overhead. It is a Postgres engineering deep-dive with little direct AI industry relevance.