diff --git a/packages/db/src/buffers/event-buffer.test.ts b/packages/db/src/buffers/event-buffer.test.ts
index 1babc51b..a321f57b 100644
--- a/packages/db/src/buffers/event-buffer.test.ts
+++ b/packages/db/src/buffers/event-buffer.test.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import {
 import { ch } from '../clickhouse/client';
 
 const clickhouseSettings = {
-  async_insert: 1,
   http_headers_progress_interval_ms: '50000',
   input_format_parallel_parsing: 1,
   max_execution_time: 300,
diff --git a/packages/db/src/clickhouse/client.ts b/packages/db/src/clickhouse/client.ts
index be55866a..373a6573 100644
--- a/packages/db/src/clickhouse/client.ts
+++ b/packages/db/src/clickhouse/client.ts
@@ -135,7 +135,6 @@ export const ch = new Proxy(originalCh, {
         withRetry(() => {
           args[0].clickhouse_settings = {
             // Allow bigger HTTP payloads/time to stream rows
-            async_insert: 1,
             wait_for_async_insert: 1,
             // Increase insert timeouts and buffer sizes for large batches
             max_execution_time: 300,