I can understand patch updates, but what else are the devs doing?

  • @Falmarri@lemmy.world
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    191 year ago

    Not just database migrations as others have mentioned, but database state. Databases can result in a lot of dead data, because of how transactions and locks work. Cleaning that up can cause usage of the database to be blocked for a short time. It’s easiest to do this periodically if there’s down time