diff --git a/backend/.sqlx/query-5a219a2532517869578c4504ff3153c43903f929ae5d62fbba12610f89c36d55.json b/backend/.sqlx/query-5a219a2532517869578c4504ff3153c43903f929ae5d62fbba12610f89c36d55.json
index 713ccb9dd3..36ddb8ab9f 100644
--- a/backend/.sqlx/query-5a219a2532517869578c4504ff3153c43903f929ae5d62fbba12610f89c36d55.json
+++ b/backend/.sqlx/query-5a219a2532517869578c4504ff3153c43903f929ae5d62fbba12610f89c36d55.json
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
       ]
     },
     "nullable": [
-      null
+      true
     ]
   },
   "hash": "5a219a2532517869578c4504ff3153c43903f929ae5d62fbba12610f89c36d55"
diff --git a/backend/.sqlx/query-5323858a017814206179d35fdb708c547742851975163550ec4f3823057e91fe.json b/backend/.sqlx/query-b8aa3844c3ca027ba405a384118cafc9608ef34ad8a4dd462e125d9124df06ba.json
similarity index 78%
rename from backend/.sqlx/query-5323858a017814206179d35fdb708c547742851975163550ec4f3823057e91fe.json
rename to backend/.sqlx/query-b8aa3844c3ca027ba405a384118cafc9608ef34ad8a4dd462e125d9124df06ba.json
index a8facb9d1b..53c25b7484 100644
--- a/backend/.sqlx/query-5323858a017814206179d35fdb708c547742851975163550ec4f3823057e91fe.json
+++ b/backend/.sqlx/query-b8aa3844c3ca027ba405a384118cafc9608ef34ad8a4dd462e125d9124df06ba.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "db_name": "PostgreSQL",
-  "query": "INSERT INTO schedule (\n                workspace_id, path, schedule, timezone, edited_by, script_path,\n                is_flow, enabled, email, permissioned_as, summary, tag, cron_version\n            ) VALUES ($1, $2, $3, 'Etc/UTC', $4, $2, false, true, $5, $6, $7, 'duckdb', 'v2')\n            ON CONFLICT (workspace_id, path) DO UPDATE SET\n                schedule = EXCLUDED.schedule,\n                timezone = EXCLUDED.timezone,\n                edited_by = EXCLUDED.edited_by,\n                edited_at = now(),\n                script_path = EXCLUDED.script_path,\n                is_flow = false,\n                enabled = true,\n                email = EXCLUDED.email,\n                permissioned_as = EXCLUDED.permissioned_as,\n                summary = EXCLUDED.summary,\n                tag = EXCLUDED.tag,\n                cron_version = EXCLUDED.cron_version,\n                error = NULL",
+  "query": "INSERT INTO schedule (\n                workspace_id, path, schedule, timezone, edited_by, script_path,\n                is_flow, enabled, permissioned_as, email, summary, tag, cron_version\n            ) VALUES ($1, $2, $3, 'Etc/UTC', $4, $2, false, true, $5, $6, $7, 'duckdb', 'v2')\n            ON CONFLICT (workspace_id, path) DO UPDATE SET\n                schedule = EXCLUDED.schedule,\n                timezone = EXCLUDED.timezone,\n                edited_by = EXCLUDED.edited_by,\n                edited_at = now(),\n                script_path = EXCLUDED.script_path,\n                is_flow = false,\n                enabled = true,\n                permissioned_as = EXCLUDED.permissioned_as,\n                email = EXCLUDED.email,\n                summary = EXCLUDED.summary,\n                tag = EXCLUDED.tag,\n                cron_version = EXCLUDED.cron_version,\n                error = NULL",
   "describe": {
     "columns": [],
     "parameters": {
@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@
     },
     "nullable": []
   },
-  "hash": "5323858a017814206179d35fdb708c547742851975163550ec4f3823057e91fe"
+  "hash": "b8aa3844c3ca027ba405a384118cafc9608ef34ad8a4dd462e125d9124df06ba"
 }
diff --git a/backend/windmill-api/src/apps.rs b/backend/windmill-api/src/apps.rs
index 85fa5e34d8..88692c9ed0 100644
--- a/backend/windmill-api/src/apps.rs
+++ b/backend/windmill-api/src/apps.rs
@@ -4741,6 +4741,15 @@ fn audited_on_behalf_of(policy: &Policy, authed: &ApiAuthed) -> Option<String> {
         .map(str::to_string)
 }
 
+/// The identity an anonymous or publisher execution runs as.
+///
+/// The address is resolved **uncached**, and that is not optional: it becomes the job's
+/// `permissioned_as_email`, from which `fetch_authed_from_permissioned_as` derives the
+/// superadmin flag and the instance groups. `EMAIL_CACHE` has a 60s TTL and nothing evicts it,
+/// so a cached read on a replica that did not handle an email change would enqueue jobs
+/// carrying the pre-change authorization. It costs one indexed lookup per execution, against a
+/// request that already does far more — and only for a `u/` principal, since `g/` and bare
+/// addresses resolve without touching the database.
 async fn get_on_behalf_of(policy: &Policy, w_id: &str, db: &DB) -> Result<(String, String)> {
     let permissioned_as = policy
         .on_behalf_of
@@ -4752,8 +4761,12 @@ async fn get_on_behalf_of(policy: &Policy, w_id: &str, db: &DB) -> Result<(Strin
             )
         })?
         .to_string();
-    let email =
-        windmill_common::users::get_email_from_permissioned_as(&permissioned_as, w_id, db).await?;
+    let email = windmill_common::users::get_email_from_permissioned_as_uncached(
+        &permissioned_as,
+        w_id,
+        db,
+    )
+    .await?;
     Ok((permissioned_as, email))
 }