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  • October 6, 2026 · 7 min read

    Two Postgres Queues, Opposite Failures, Same Drill: Know Which Way Yours Breaks

    Kill a worker mid-job and the two most common database-backed job queues behave in opposite ways. One re-runs the job after a fixed interval whether the worker is alive or dead, which duplicates work on a slow task. The other holds a dead worker's job for hours, which stalls it. Neither default is wrong, and inheriting one without knowing which you have is how a queue becomes an outage.

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