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: ![Screenshot_from_2017-11-17_17-49-12](/uploads/60d21c1fe018e7dd08e9fe6a34f2d841/Screenshot_from_2017-11-17_17-49-12.png) This in turn also affects the number of dead tuples over time: ![Screenshot_from_2017-11-17_17-51-16](/uploads/7da547ea464153d175e3326230e69cd7/Screenshot_from_2017-11-17_17-51-16.png) Looking at the last 90 days of data we can see the number of dead tuples per minute gradually increase: ![Screenshot_from_2017-11-17_17-52-46](/uploads/f4977e622033fbf333e0f709792de050/Screenshot_from_2017-11-17_17-52-46.png) 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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