I agree. I have prototyped this in the past, but our current pub/sub was not painful enough for us to go full steam ahead with PG. However, my design was more

I agree. I have prototyped this in the past, but our current pub/sub was not painful enough for us to go full steam ahead with PG. However, my design was more bare bones. I was picking jobs by chaining CTE's that did the status update as they returned the first element of the queue.