Webhook / Queue Extension for Realtime

[psteinroe]

Hey,

Queuing is part of most applications, and it would be awesome if Supabase would provide a native and well-integrated solution. With the current architecture, I would assume that a webhook plugin for realtime would provide such functionality, assuming it can ensure deliverability. There are some discussions around this, and it seems like there has been some work, but I cannot see anything going on lately. A webhook plugin could also be a more scalable approach of triggering an api after something happens in the database compared pg_net.

Main requirements would be

• Durable channels that would store the data temporarily and ensure that a client, even if disconnected for a short time, would receive all data sent through the channel
• Webhook extension that would send a http request (with proper auth headers) to a specified endpoint when any data is sent through a channel

It seems like there has been some work done a few years back in the context of the workflow RFC, e.g. in https://github.com/supabase/realtime/issues/33 Similar features also have been discussed in https://github.com/supabase/realtime/issues/66