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Comment by alexbezhan

3 years ago

I'm using SQLite as my main database. Is it a bad idea to build queues on top of SQLite?

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alexbezhan

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andrewstuart  3 years ago

SKIP LOCKED guarantees that a row can only be read once. This is critical for queueing systems.

SQLite does not support SKIP LOCKED.

dunno7456  3 years ago

No

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