Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales

Software Development, Databases & Storage, Performance Engineering(dbos.dev)view on HackerNews
PostgresLISTEN/NOTIFYoptimizationperformancedurable notificationsstreamspub/subhigh-throughputlow-latencyscalabilityreliability.

Author: KraftyOne

Date: 7/24/2026

Article Summary:
The article discusses how to optimize Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY for high-throughput and low-latency durable notifications, streams, and pub/sub, and how to achieve 60K writes per second on a single Postgres server with millisecond-scale latency.