[zem]

man, that brings back memories - very early in my career I tried to use postgres as a task queue, thinking that with O(hundreds) of jobs it wasn't worth setting up something like rabbitmq. sadly I knew pretty much nothing about db design and the performance was horrible, ended up ripping it out and installing rabbitmq after all (and having a whole new set of headaches with random rabbit admin issues but at least when it worked it was fast)