diff --git a/posthog/temporal/workflows/postgres_batch_export.py b/posthog/temporal/workflows/postgres_batch_export.py
index f47684242df6b..1844742880876 100644
--- a/posthog/temporal/workflows/postgres_batch_export.py
+++ b/posthog/temporal/workflows/postgres_batch_export.py
@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ def postgres_connection(inputs):
         port=inputs.port,
         # The 'hasSelfSignedCert' parameter in the postgres-plugin was provided mainly
         # for users of Heroku and RDS. It was used to set 'rejectUnauthorized' to false if a self-signed cert was used.
-        # Mapping this to sslmode is not straight-forward, but going by Heroku's recommendation (see below) we should use 'no-verify'.
+        # Mapping this to sslmode is not straight-forward, but going by Heroku's recommendation (see below) we should use 'disable'.
         # Reference: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/connecting-heroku-postgres#connecting-in-node-js
-        sslmode="no-verify" if inputs.has_self_signed_cert is True else "prefer",
+        sslmode="disable" if inputs.has_self_signed_cert is True else "prefer",
     )
 
     try: