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>>hyzyla+(OP)
You really don't need anything fancy to implement a queue using SQL. You need a table with a primary id and a "status" field. An "expired" field can be used instead of the "status". We used the latter because it allows easy retries.

1. SELECT item_id WHERE expire = 0. If this is empty, no items are available.

2. UPDATE SET expire = some_future_time WHERE item_id = $selected_item_id AND expire = 0. Then check whether UPDATE affected any rows. If it did, item_id is yours. If not, loop. If the database has a sane optimizer it'll note at most one document needs locking as the primary id is given.

All this needs is a very weak property: document level atomic UPDATE which can return whether it changed anything. (How weak? MongoDB could do that in 2009.)

Source code at https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal/-/blob/9.2.x/core/... (We cooked this up for Drupal in 2009 but I am reasonably sure we didn't invent anything new.)

Of course, this is not the fastest job queue there is but it is quite often good enough.

>>_ugfj+z2
Thanks for posting this! It is relevant to me right now and great example. Especially since I'm using a new to me database, Spanner.

Specifically I similarly pull rows into a 'queue' like that linked sql by WHERE primary key, primary key, and queue_status ORDER BY timestamp, uuid LIMIT 10. I was worried what would happen with many requests around the same time if it would accidentally pull duplicates into 'queue.'

I think hopefully I've implemented Spanner locking read write transaction correctly and that this won't cause problems at scale (we're not even close to google scale lol).