On: How/why to sweep async tasks under a Postgres table

[greener_grass]

> The real answer to all this is to use a provider that supports idempotency keys. Then when you can retry the action repeatedly without it actually happening again. My favorite article on this subject: https://brandur.org/idempotency-keys

Turtles all the way down?

Let's say you are the provider that must support idempotency keys? How should it be done?

[nothrabannosir → greener_grass]

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