[anarazel]

FWIW, you already can use postgres' logical decoding / change data capture to make queuing more efficient. Depending on what you need.

If it's the type of queue that various consumers need to see in their entirety, then you can just use pg_logical_emit_message(transactional bool, prefix text, payload data/bytea) to emit messages , which logical decoding consumers then see either in time order (transactional = false) or in commit order (transactional = true).

If it's more the the job type of queue where exactly one subscriber is allowed to see a message it's a bit more complicated, but using logical decoding will probably still be more efficient than querying a queue table with ORDER BY etc.

Being able to do queue submissions as part of a transaction (i.e. queue submissions will only be visible after commit) can be really useful to integrate with external systems.

[xyzzy_plugh]

You could use logical replication for queuing but there are a lot of footguns. It's far from a general purpose queue. For a handful of consumers, fine, but you'll have trouble scaling this to hundreds or thousands of consumers, which other queues solve for handily.