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Alessio Gravili e0ffada80b feat: support parallel job queue tasks, speed up task running (#13614)
Currently, attempting to run tasks in parallel will result in DB errors.

## Solution

The problem was caused due to inefficient db update calls. After each
task completes, we need to update the log array in the payload-jobs
collection. On postgres, that's a different table.

Currently, the update works the following way:
1. Nuke the table
2. Re-insert every single row, including the new one

This will throw db errors if multiple processes start doing that.
Additionally, due to conflicts, new log rows may be lost.

This PR makes use of the the [new db $push operation
](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/pull/13453) we recently added to
atomically push a new log row to the database in a single round-trip.
This not only reduces the amount of db round trips (=> faster job queue
system) but allows multiple tasks to perform this db operation in
parallel, without conflicts.

## Problem

**Example:**

```ts
export const fastParallelTaskWorkflow: WorkflowConfig<'fastParallelTask'> = {
  slug: 'fastParallelTask',
  handler: async ({nlineTask }) => {
    const taskFunctions = []
    for (let i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
      const idx = i + 1
      taskFunctions.push(async () => {
        return await inlineTask(`parallel task ${idx}`, {
          input: {
            test: idx,
          },
          task: () => {
            return {
              output: {
                taskID: idx.toString(),
              },
            }
          },
        })
      })
    }

    await Promise.all(taskFunctions.map((f) => f()))
  },
}
```

On SQLite, this would throw the following error:

```bash
Caught error Error: UNIQUE constraint failed: payload_jobs_log.id
    at Object.next (/Users/alessio/Documents/GitHub/payload/node_modules/.pnpm/libsql@0.4.7/node_modules/libsql/index.js:335:20)
    at Statement.all (/Users/alessio/Documents/GitHub/payload/node_modules/.pnpm/libsql@0.4.7/node_modules/libsql/index.js:360:16)
    at executeStmt (/Users/alessio/Documents/GitHub/payload/node_modules/.pnpm/@libsql+client@0.14.0_bufferutil@4.0.8_utf-8-validate@6.0.5/node_modules/@libsql/client/lib-cjs/sqlite3.js:285:34)
    at Sqlite3Client.execute (/Users/alessio/Documents/GitHub/payload/node_modules/.pnpm/@libsql+client@0.14.0_bufferutil@4.0.8_utf-8-validate@6.0.5/node_modules/@libsql/client/lib-cjs/sqlite3.js:101:16)
    at /Users/alessio/Documents/GitHub/payload/node_modules/.pnpm/drizzle-orm@0.44.2_@libsql+client@0.14.0_bufferutil@4.0.8_utf-8-validate@6.0.5__@opentelemetr_asjmtflojkxlnxrshoh4fj5f6u/node_modules/src/libsql/session.ts:288:58
    at LibSQLPreparedQuery.queryWithCache (/Users/alessio/Documents/GitHub/payload/node_modules/.pnpm/drizzle-orm@0.44.2_@libsql+client@0.14.0_bufferutil@4.0.8_utf-8-validate@6.0.5__@opentelemetr_asjmtflojkxlnxrshoh4fj5f6u/node_modules/src/sqlite-core/session.ts:79:18)
    at LibSQLPreparedQuery.values (/Users/alessio/Documents/GitHub/payload/node_modules/.pnpm/drizzle-orm@0.44.2_@libsql+client@0.14.0_bufferutil@4.0.8_utf-8-validate@6.0.5__@opentelemetr_asjmtflojkxlnxrshoh4fj5f6u/node_modules/src/libsql/session.ts:286:21)
    at LibSQLPreparedQuery.all (/Users/alessio/Documents/GitHub/payload/node_modules/.pnpm/drizzle-orm@0.44.2_@libsql+client@0.14.0_bufferutil@4.0.8_utf-8-validate@6.0.5__@opentelemetr_asjmtflojkxlnxrshoh4fj5f6u/node_modules/src/libsql/session.ts:214:27)
    at QueryPromise.all (/Users/alessio/Documents/GitHub/payload/node_modules/.pnpm/drizzle-orm@0.44.2_@libsql+client@0.14.0_bufferutil@4.0.8_utf-8-validate@6.0.5__@opentelemetr_asjmtflojkxlnxrshoh4fj5f6u/node_modules/src/sqlite-core/query-builders/insert.ts:402:26)
    at QueryPromise.execute (/Users/alessio/Documents/GitHub/payload/node_modules/.pnpm/drizzle-orm@0.44.2_@libsql+client@0.14.0_bufferutil@4.0.8_utf-8-validate@6.0.5__@opentelemetr_asjmtflojkxlnxrshoh4fj5f6u/node_modules/src/sqlite-core/query-builders/insert.ts:414:40)
    at QueryPromise.then (/Users/alessio/Documents/GitHub/payload/node_modules/.pnpm/drizzle-orm@0.44.2_@libsql+client@0.14.0_bufferutil@4.0.8_utf-8-validate@6.0.5__@opentelemetr_asjmtflojkxlnxrshoh4fj5f6u/node_modules/src/query-promise.ts:31:15) {
  rawCode: 1555,
  code: 'SQLITE_CONSTRAINT_PRIMARYKEY',
  libsqlError: true
}
```

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