pgmq

A lightweight message queue. Like AWS SQS and RSMQ but on Postgres. (by pgmq)

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pgmq/pgmq is an open source project licensed under PostgreSQL License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of pgmq is Rust.


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