diff --git a/posthog/temporal/tests/batch_exports/test_redshift_batch_export_workflow.py b/posthog/temporal/tests/batch_exports/test_redshift_batch_export_workflow.py
index 835e8731a8fcc..cea71a458013f 100644
--- a/posthog/temporal/tests/batch_exports/test_redshift_batch_export_workflow.py
+++ b/posthog/temporal/tests/batch_exports/test_redshift_batch_export_workflow.py
@@ -66,10 +66,9 @@ async def assert_events_in_redshift(connection, schema, table_name, events, excl
 
         raw_properties = event.get("properties", None)
         properties = remove_escaped_whitespace_recursive(raw_properties) if raw_properties else None
-        elements_chain = event.get("elements_chain", None)
         expected_event = {
             "distinct_id": event.get("distinct_id"),
-            "elements": json.dumps(elements_chain) if elements_chain else None,
+            "elements": "",
             "event": event_name,
             "ip": properties.get("$ip", None) if properties else None,
             "properties": json.dumps(properties, ensure_ascii=False) if properties else None,
diff --git a/posthog/temporal/workflows/redshift_batch_export.py b/posthog/temporal/workflows/redshift_batch_export.py
index bbe42ef4890b6..520c8e0f4b12a 100644
--- a/posthog/temporal/workflows/redshift_batch_export.py
+++ b/posthog/temporal/workflows/redshift_batch_export.py
@@ -129,10 +129,11 @@ async def insert_records_to_redshift(
     rows_exported = get_rows_exported_metric()
 
     async with async_client_cursor_from_connection(redshift_connection) as cursor:
-        batch = [pre_query.as_string(cursor).encode("utf-8")]
+        batch = []
+        pre_query_str = pre_query.as_string(cursor).encode("utf-8")
 
         async def flush_to_redshift(batch):
-            await cursor.execute(b"".join(batch))
+            await cursor.execute(pre_query_str + b",".join(batch))
             rows_exported.add(len(batch) - 1)
             # It would be nice to record BYTES_EXPORTED for Redshift, but it's not worth estimating
             # the byte size of each batch the way things are currently written. We can revisit this
@@ -140,16 +141,14 @@ async def flush_to_redshift(batch):
 
         for record in itertools.chain([first_record], records):
             batch.append(cursor.mogrify(template, record).encode("utf-8"))
-
             if len(batch) < batch_size:
-                batch.append(b",")
                 continue
 
             await flush_to_redshift(batch)
-            batch = [pre_query.as_string(cursor).encode("utf-8")]
+            batch = []
 
         if len(batch) > 0:
-            await flush_to_redshift(batch[:-1])
+            await flush_to_redshift(batch)
 
 
 @contextlib.asynccontextmanager
@@ -278,12 +277,14 @@ async def insert_into_redshift_activity(inputs: RedshiftInsertInputs):
 
         def map_to_record(row: dict) -> dict:
             """Map row to a record to insert to Redshift."""
-            return {
+            record = {
                 key: json.dumps(remove_escaped_whitespace_recursive(row[key]), ensure_ascii=False)
                 if key in json_columns and row[key] is not None
                 else row[key]
                 for key in schema_columns
             }
+            record["elements"] = ""
+            return record
 
         async with postgres_connection(inputs) as connection:
             await insert_records_to_redshift(