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#​644 — April 15, 2026 Web Version Postgres Weekly Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy — Running a job queue in Postgres works well (“just use Postgres!”) until long-running analytics queries silently prevent autovacuum from keeping up. Here’s what’s actually going on and what you can do about it, along with PlanetScale’s own in-house solution. Simeon Griggs (PlanetScale) You Extend Postgres for Everything Else. Why Not Analytics? — TimescaleDB adds hypertables, 95% compression, and continuous a...

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