Comment by qianli_cs

I think a clearer way to think about this is "at least once" message delivery plus idempotent workflow execution is effectively exactly-once event processing.

The DBOS workflow execution itself is idempotent (assume each step is idempotent). When DBOS starts a workflow, the "start" (workflow inputs) is durably logged first. If the app crashes, on restart, DBOS reloads from Postgres and resumes from the last completed step. Steps are checkpointed so they don't re-run once recorded.