Comment by nine_k

In short:

* Postgres still has the same problem with vacuum horizon, when a long-running query can block vacuuming of a quick-churning table. (The author uses a benchmark from 2015 when the problem was already well-understood.)

* Stock Postgres still has no tools good enough against it.

* The author's company special version of Postgres does have such tools; a few polite promotions of it are strewn across the article.

My conclusion: it's still not wise to mix long (OLAP-style) loads and quick-churning (queue-style) loads on the same Postgres instance. Maybe running 0MQ or even RMQ may be an easier solution, depending on the requirements to the queue.