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		mike_hearn 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale Yes that's true but in good implementations you will want to surface to the recipient via some dashboard if delivery consistently fails. So at some point a message on the exception queue will want to update the db.

ownagefool 5 months ago [–]

Whilst true, it probably doesn't need ACID / strong consistency.

Don't get me wrong. Correctness is a great default, much easier to reason about.

mike_hearn 5 months ago | [–]

You're right, I think we're in agreement.

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