Running on Windows

Procrastinate has been manually tested and is known to work on Windows. However, there are a few things to keep in mind:

  • Due to the way signals are implemented on Windows (in short, they are not fully supported), the worker will not be able to gracefully stop when receiving a SIGINT or SIGTERM signal as described in the Retry stalled jobs guide. This means that any running jobs will be halted abruptly.

  • We do not use windows for running Procrastinate in production, so we may not be aware of all the issues that may arise.

  • There are no automated tests in place for windows, so it’s possible you encounter bugs. If you know what needs to be fixed, we accept pull requests. Thank you!

Given these limitations, we strongly advise using a Unix-like system for running Procrastinate in production. Windows should primarily be used for development purposes only.