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One other detail to note is that we built our software architecture in such a way that we can stop traffic to our PostgreSQL databases, queue the transactions, and run a PostgreSQL update without affecting payments acceptance.

That’s downtime by any reasonable measure depending on the exact specifics. Is writing to a journal while the DB is down “downtime”?

Site wise no but DB-wise yes.

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