We ran into this around session cookies on a quiet Sunday incident.
I expected a tooling problem. It was an assumption in the schema.
EXPLAIN and a short rollback window saved the afternoon.
Writes slowed first, then a handful of reads timed out.
Dropping the unused index and batching the backfill unblocked the queue.
I now review write paths with the same care as the happy-path query.
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