pgtq 0.4.1

A lightweight PostgreSQL-backed distributed task queue.

PostGresql Task Queue (PGTQ)

A very simple task queue system built on PostgreSQL. PGTQ was designed to solve the following use case:

1. I have one or more 'controllers' which will enqueue many tasks to be run in a PostgreSQL database.
2. I have one or more 'workers' which will dequeue tasks from the database and execute them.

Installation

You can install PGTQ via pip:

pip install pgtq

Usage

Here's a simple example of how to use PGTQ:

# controller.py
from pgtq import PGTQ

# Initialize the task queue
pgtq = PGTQ(dsn="postgresql://user:password@localhost/dbname")

pgtq.install() # Create necessary tables (only needed once, but it's safe to call multiple times)

# Enqueue a task
pgtq.enqueue("add_numbers", args={"a": i, "b": i * 2})

# worker.py
from pgtq import PGTQ

# Initialize the task queue
pgtq = PGTQ(dsn="postgresql://user:password@localhost/dbname")

@pgtq.task("add_numbers")
def add_numbers(a, b):
    print("Adding:", a, "+", b, "=", a + b)
    return a + b

pgtq.start_worker()

For more detailed examples, see the examples/ directory in the repository.

Batching and waiting for completion

You can group tasks together with a batch_id (UUID) and wait for them to finish before continuing:

import uuid
from pgtq import PGTQ

pgtq = PGTQ(dsn="postgresql://user:password@localhost/dbname")
pgtq.install()

batch_id = uuid.uuid4()

with pgtq.batch_enqueue(batch_id=batch_id):
    for i in range(10):
        pgtq.enqueue("add_numbers", args={"a": i, "b": i * 2})

# blocks until no queued/in-progress tasks remain for this batch
pgtq.wait_for_batch(batch_id)

Async users can call AsyncPGTQ.wait_for_batch(batch_id) in the same way.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.