[dimino]

People are literally saying to default to using PG for "everything". That's the attitude I'm arguing against.

What's frustrating about this conversation is that I'm literally, right now, supporting two different queueing systems based on PG and Redis, so I get on a very real level, the tradeoffs. I know in great detail the problems that come up, but HN is not conducive to talking at that level of detail. At this point every comment I make is flagged and downvoted, so why would I pay time into a system that has clearly decided my opinion isn't relevant?

[ukd1]

I mean i think it’s mostly the blunt, binary right/wrong nature of your posts getting you this reaction. For most folks they’ve moved past that and almost all of us have non perfect world systems where we’ve made trade offs. It’s just not my (and I guess a lit of folks) reality to be so black/white on this.

[dimino]

Of course there are trade offs, of course we live in imperfect situations where we have to deal with shit that isn't ideal, but sitting around pretending like everything is alright is just lying to ourselves.

You're stuck in PG because your DevOps team is a bunch of incompetent dolts, so yeah, make the best out of the bad situation and go ahead and use something like Que.

Just don't develop Stockholm Syndrome while doing it.

People in this thread are protecting their own egos by expressing how great PG is as a message broker, but it's harmful to the industry to let that kind of attitude perpetuate.