# ACQUIRE_INTERVAL variable · @imqueue/pg-pubsub

Source: https://imqueue.org/api/pg-pubsub/latest/pg-pubsub.acquire_interval/
Published: 2026-08-01
Author: @imqueue maintainers (https://github.com/imqueue)
Package: @imqueue/pg-pubsub 3.0.5 — generated reference, not hand-written

How often, in milliseconds, a process without the lock retries acquiring it. Default 30000.

This is the failover bound, and it is asymmetric. A clean shutdown releases the lock and the waiting processes are notified at once, so takeover is near-immediate. But if the lock holder dies WITHOUT releasing — SIGKILL, a lost container, a hard crash — nothing notifies anyone, and the channel stays unhandled until the next retry fires. Any notification published in that window is lost outright, because LISTEN/NOTIFY has no backlog to replay.

So this value is the worst-case gap in message handling after an unclean exit. Lower it if that gap matters more than the polling cost of the extra lock acquisition attempts.

**Signature:**

```typescript
ACQUIRE_INTERVAL = 30000
```