At a MediaWiki 1.29.1 installation:
$ php maintenance/update.php [...] ...RFC and PMID already added to interwiki database table Purging caches...done. Done in 0.1 s. PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBAccessError: Database access has been disabled. in /var/www/newtestamentwiki/web/w/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php:919 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/newtestamentwiki/web/w/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(784): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->reallyOpenConnection(Array, false) #1 /var/www/newtestamentwiki/web/w/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(663): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->openConnection(0, false) #2 /var/www/newtestamentwiki/web/w/includes/GlobalFunctions.php(3062): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->getConnection(0, Array, false) #3 /var/www/newtestamentwiki/web/w/extensions/Wikilog/WikilogHooks.php(532): wfGetDB(-2) #4 [internal function]: WikilogRegenThreads->__destruct() #5 {main} thrown in /var/www/newtestamentwiki/web/w/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php on line 919