

Architecture Components
Write-Ahead Log (WAL)
Logical Decoding
Replication Slots
Logical Decoding Plugins
Queue
- Essentially a set of tables in a PostgreSQL database.
- Default is to have 3 tables per queue, these are rotated to efficiently purge discarded events.
- Event is discarded when all the consumers have processed it.
- There can be multiple queues in one database.
- Any number of producers and consumers to the queue.
Producer
- application module that pushes transactions into queue.
Consumer
- application that reads transactions from queue.
Architecture Pillar
Features
- Transactional. Events are created transactionally, can be coupled with surrounding business logic.
- Efficient. Events are processed in batches which gives low per event overhead.
- Flexible. No limits on the number of producers or consumers. Custom event formats.
- Reliable. Events are stored in PostgreSQL database – this adds the benefit of write ahead logging and crash recovery.
- Easy to use. Simple SQL interface, API-s for several languages.
- Open Source. No licensing fees, but occasionally you’ll have to get your hands dirty
Replication Metadata (publications and subscriptions) hosted and managed outside of database
Benefits of queuing
- client can send a request to an unavailable server
- server can send a reply to an unavailable client
- can have many servers feed off a single queue