WordPress 3.9 Database Update Infinite Loop

I had that on one of my sites recently (set to auto update core, so not sure if on 3.9 or one of 3.8.*). Flushing cache fixed it — wp cache flush via wp-cli, I imagine other ways would work just as well.

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