Large number of frequent updates on the "projects" table
Per our tuple statistics (https://performance.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/postgres-tuple-statistics?refresh=1m&orgId=1) we seem to be updating `projects` quite a lot over time:

This in turn also affects the number of dead tuples over time:

Looking at the last 90 days of data we can see the number of dead tuples per minute gradually increase:

I'm worried that some process is performing unnecessary updates on the `projects` table. We should reduce this value back to the old value of <= 5k dead tuples per minute, instead of 17k.
cc @tiagonbotelho
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