Postgres Publish To RabbitMQ

cd db

📦 1. Install pg_amqp

Clone pg_amqp:

git clone https://github.com/omniti-labs/pg_amqp postgres/pg_amqp

Install the extension in the Postgres image:

db/postgres/Dockerfile

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
 build-essential \
 postgresql-server-dev-17

# pg_amqp - Used by api schema
COPY ./pg_amqp /pg_amqp
WORKDIR /pg_amqp
RUN make
RUN make install

WORKDIR /var/lib/postgresql

Build Postgres:

docker compose build postgres

Note

You may need to fix "implicit int" errors in pg_amqp, which were reported here, and fixed but not yet merged. It's easy to fix. Change the parameters from broker_id to int broker_id in postgres/pg_amqp/src/pg_amqp.c, on lines 140, 152, and 239.

📚 2. Load Required Extensions

Add this to a migration file:

db/postgres/migrations/01-extensions.sql

-- amqp extension for rabbitmq connection
create extension amqp;

Note

Don't wrap this file in a BEGIN/COMMIT block — create extension is non-transactional.

Run this migration to load the extension:

bin/postgres migrate

3. Add Broker Configuration

Create a seed script:

db/postgres/seed/broker.sql

insert into amqp.broker (host, port, vhost, username, password) values (
  'rabbitmq', 5672, '/', 'guest', 'guest'
);

Run the script:

bin/postgres psql < postgres/seed/broker.sql

🏗 3. Publish a message

We'll send a message whenever a row is inserted into a table.

db/postgres/migrations/03-jobs.sql

create function start_job() returns void
language plpgsql as $$
begin
  perform amqp.publish(
    1,
    'amq.topic',
    'jobs',
    json_build_object('event', 'start_job', 'command', 'long_running_task')::text
  );
end;
$$;

The parameters are:

1. broker_id (id of the inserted broker configuration)
2. exchange
3. routing_key
4. message

▶️ 4. Run the Migrations

bin/postgres migrate