Keep in mind the context of this thread. It's some shitty blog suggesting you do every fuck thing on postgres. Myself and the other guy are simply suggesting that running a single-node instance of redis is an infinitely better and simpler choice than implementing a cache or a job queue on a rdbms.
I don't feel designing for a guaranteed high-availability application was part of the discussion at all.
I don't feel designing for a guaranteed high-availability application was part of the discussion at all.