--- title: "Using Postgres as a high-scale queue" publication: "Postgres Weekly" issue: 609 published_at: "2025-07-24" canonical_url: "https://postgresweekly.com/issues/609" --- Plus Postgres 18 beta 2 arrives, and Neon has an interesting new VS Code extension. | #​609 — July 24, 2025 [Web Version](https://postgresweekly.com/issues/609) Together with [![Atlas\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,e_trim,w_1280,h_487/co_white/pwkgncooqanklshanetv.png)](https://atlasgo.io/blog/2025/06/09/case-study-postgres-schema-as-code?utm_source=postgres_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlas_postgres_20250722) Postgres Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/dtx3obv2bt4zodzr7hzr.jpg)](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-18-beta-2-released-3103/) [Postgres 18 Beta 2 Released](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-18-beta-2-released-3103/) — The second beta of Postgres 18 is now available, pending a final release in the next couple of months. [The draft release notes](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/release-18.html) remain the best way to get up to date, but this post includes some of the changes and fixes since beta 1. PostgreSQL Global Development Group [Lessons from Scaling Postgres Queues to 100K Events Per Second](https://www.rudderstack.com/blog/scaling-postgres-queue/) — RudderStack decided to use Postgres as their main queueing system rather than something like Kafka and their team shares the story of what they learned scaling it up to work, including explaining some very specific Postgres configuration tweaks. 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[Neon now has a VS Code extension](https://neon.com/blog/neon-now-runs-in-vs-code) that connects your Neon database to your local dev environment. [How Matrix Discovered and Recovered from a Postgres Corruption Issue](https://matrix.org/blog/2025/07/postgres-corruption-postmortem/) — [Matrix](https://matrix.org/) is a popular decentralized communications system, though it does offer [a ‘home server’](https://matrix.org/homeserver/about/) for people new to the system. This home server, backed by a large Postgres instance, recently ran into index corruption issues, and here’s the rather detailed tale behind it. Richard van der Hoff 📄 [Who Are the PGDG?](https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/who-are-the-pgdg/) – That’s the _PostgreSQL Global Development Group_ to you and me. 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