Postgres Queues Actually Scale

Global World Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:01:14 GMT Moderate confidence — 64/100

The conventional wisdom around Postgres-backed queues is that they don't scale.
To handle a large workload, you can't use Postgres, but instead need a dedicated queueing system like RabbitMQ + Celery or Redis + BullMQ.
There's a reason people say this: queues really are a demanding workload for Postgres.

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The conventional wisdom around Postgres-backed queues is that they don't scale.
To handle a large workload, you can't use Postgres, but instead need a dedicated queueing system like RabbitMQ + Celery or Redis + BullMQ.
There's a reason people say this: queues really are a demanding workload for Postgres.

Sources: Dbos