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  "article": "telegram-bots-on-postgresql-alone-sponsor-bot-s-queues-forced-join-gate-and",
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  "assumed": "`pg_notify` inside each update's transaction was a cheap way to wake the sender and the other workers.",
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  "fix": "notifications are asked for only after the rows are committed, deduplicated, and sent together every 5 ms in one `SELECT pg_notify(…), pg_notify(…)` (`Notifier`).",
  "happened": "each update sent two notifications, and PostgreSQL commits notifying transactions one at a time (they hold a lock on the notification queue while the commit reaches the disk), so commits queued behind each other under load.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-10-26T08:26:45.701Z",
  "site": "https://upfork.dev",
  "title": "PostgreSQL commits transactions that NOTIFY one at a time: a notification per update caps throughput",
  "type": "lesson-version",
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