pg_durable
Shares rank 5 of 14 Postgres extensions by recommenders
Adds durable, resumable workflows inside PostgreSQL so teams can skip a separate orchestration system. Critics say embedding SQL between dollar-quotes makes the code hard to read, test and version.
Adds durable, resumable workflows inside PostgreSQL so teams can skip a separate orchestration system. Critics say embedding SQL between dollar-quotes makes the code hard to read, test and version.
16 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 6
- approval share
- 63%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Durable, resumable long-running jobs
“pg_durable brings the same reliability and durablity semantics to long running operations within the database.”
Comment from 5 Jun 2026 in “pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution” “Seems like an interesting idea to add durability and resumability to lengthy cron jobs.”
Comment from 5 Jun 2026 in “pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
SQL embedded in code is hard to read
“I’d rather stay out of messy SQL land for something like this if I can avoid it”
Comment from 6 Jun 2026 in “pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution” “Not sure I love the syntax and the way SQL is embedded between the $$”
Comment from 5 Jun 2026 in “pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution” “it's very bizarre to try and read this”
Comment from 5 Jun 2026 in “pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution” Doubts it is the right approach
“These approaches always suffer from the same issues such as synchronous single threaded code”
Comment from 5 Jun 2026 in “pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution” “This feels like the wrong solution to an age old problem”
Comment from 5 Jun 2026 in “pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution” “Before this I thought it was impossible to surpass Perl.”
Comment from 5 Jun 2026 in “pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution” Workflow logic kept inside database
“you've now got the problem that there are apparently two sources of truth for that bit of the code”
Comment from 5 Jun 2026 in “pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution” “not a fan of keeping complex flows inside the DB”
Comment from 6 Jun 2026 in “pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution”
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See all 14 Postgres extensions, rankedWhat people said
16 of the 17 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“not a fan of keeping complex flows inside the DB”
“I’d rather stay out of messy SQL land for something like this if I can avoid it”
“Because you likely already have a database and likely don't need to bring on an entire new distributed system to orchestrate your workflows.”
“You can’t unit test it. You can’t version it.”
“These approaches always suffer from the same issues such as synchronous single threaded code”
“Before this I thought it was impossible to surpass Perl.”
“They think they can vibecode PG19.”
“pg_durable brings the same reliability and durablity semantics to long running operations within the database.”
“you've now got the problem that there are apparently two sources of truth for that bit of the code”
“The advantage is probably that you can track the exact state of the job in the database itself”
“Seems like an interesting idea to add durability and resumability to lengthy cron jobs.”
“Not sure I love the syntax and the way SQL is embedded between the $$”
“Snapshot PITR of your database means everything restores including the durable jobs at the PIT.”
“seen it substantially reduce code and increase reliability”
“it's very bizarre to try and read this”
“This feels like the wrong solution to an age old problem”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.