Comment 2 for bug 846162

If the database is unavailable, the 503 page is returned immediately. We know the database is unavailable, as the pgbouncer proxy is shutdown during the fastdowntime db updates.

I'm going to flag this as incomplete. It might have been fixed when we made Launchpad return 503 error pages. If not, we need more information such as an OOPS. Perhaps the page was going to timeout anyway, and a long query interrupted by the outage?