diff --git a/relay-server/src/services/spooler/envelope_stack/sqlite.rs b/relay-server/src/services/spooler/envelope_stack/sqlite.rs
index b4e75a6ec7..d84997179f 100644
--- a/relay-server/src/services/spooler/envelope_stack/sqlite.rs
+++ b/relay-server/src/services/spooler/envelope_stack/sqlite.rs
@@ -128,6 +128,10 @@ impl SQLiteEnvelopeStack {
                 "failed to spool envelopes to disk",
             );
 
+            // When early return here, we are acknowledging that the elements that we popped from
+            // the buffer are lost. We are doing this on purposes, since if we were to have a
+            // database corruption during runtime, and we were to put the values back into the buffer
+            // we will end up with an infinite cycle.
             return Err(SQLiteEnvelopeStackError::DatabaseError(err));
         }