pgmq
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Nov 21, 2025first mention
Sep 2, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Pgmq though, is "just a bunch of tables". It's going to be a lot easier to figure out what's going on.”
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“Yep. That's why I will always recommend https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq/”
“I like pgmq”
“it's built on pgmq (which does the heavy lifting, making it backend agnostic)”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“We have been (slowly) working on some fairness related queueing features over in pgmq”
Threads where it came up
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- You probably don't need another database 1 mention
- Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower 1 mention
- pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution 1 mention
- item 48313909 1 mention
- Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows 1 mention
Data: pgmq.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 13
“pgmq does most of the work”
“Pgmq though, is "just a bunch of tables". It's going to be a lot easier to figure out what's going on.”
“Yep. That's why I will always recommend https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq/”
“I like pgmq”
https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq
“it's built on pgmq (which does the heavy lifting, making it backend agnostic)”
“pair well with pgmq and pg_cron for scheduled work”
“Working on something now that uses pgmq + Elixir for workflows”
“based on pgmq (rust) doing the heavy lifting”
“https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq”
“We use pgmq with the pgmq-go client, and it has clients in many different languages, it's amazing.”
“using pgmq for queues”
“pgmq which I used a lot.”