diff --git a/dags/hivemind_etl_helpers/src/db/github/load/prepare_deletion.py b/dags/hivemind_etl_helpers/src/db/github/load/prepare_deletion.py
index ff719bf6..96581293 100644
--- a/dags/hivemind_etl_helpers/src/db/github/load/prepare_deletion.py
+++ b/dags/hivemind_etl_helpers/src/db/github/load/prepare_deletion.py
@@ -69,14 +69,16 @@ def _delete_issue_and_comment_docs(
         documents = issue_documents + comment_documents
 
         docs_to_save, doc_file_ids_to_delete = self._check_documents(
-            documents, identifier="id", date_field="updated_at", identifier_type="::text",
+            documents,
+            identifier="id",
+            date_field="updated_at",
+            identifier_type="::text",
         )
         return docs_to_save, doc_file_ids_to_delete
 
     def _delete_pr_document(
         self, pr_docs: list[Document]
     ) -> tuple[list[Document], list[str]]:
-        
         docs_merged, docs_merged_pr_ids_to_delete = self._check_documents(
             pr_docs,
             identifier="id",
@@ -97,14 +99,14 @@ def _delete_pr_document(
         documents_to_save = self._get_unique_docs(docs_merged, docs_closed, "id")
 
         return documents_to_save, list(doc_file_ids_to_delete)
-    
+
     def _check_documents(
-            self,
-            documents: list[Document],
-            identifier: str,
-            date_field: str,
-            identifier_type: str,
-        ) -> tuple[list[Document], list[str]]:
+        self,
+        documents: list[Document],
+        identifier: str,
+        date_field: str,
+        identifier_type: str,
+    ) -> tuple[list[Document], list[str]]:
         """
         a wrapper class for checking previous documents
         """
@@ -131,7 +133,7 @@ def _create_deletion_query(
 
         deletion_query = f"""
             DELETE FROM data_github
-            WHERE (metadata_->>'id')::text IN {deletion_ids};
+            WHERE (metadata_->>'id')::integer IN {deletion_ids};
         """
         return deletion_query
 
diff --git a/dags/hivemind_etl_helpers/src/db/github/transform/issues.py b/dags/hivemind_etl_helpers/src/db/github/transform/issues.py
index 5d07f9eb..091cc270 100644
--- a/dags/hivemind_etl_helpers/src/db/github/transform/issues.py
+++ b/dags/hivemind_etl_helpers/src/db/github/transform/issues.py
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ def transform_comment_of_issue(data: GitHubIssue) -> Document:
     document : llama_index.Document
         the comment document within the github issue
     """
-    # since there's no way we could have the 
+    # since there's no way we could have the
     # first comment's id, we're creating one manually
     # note: no ids before had 9 in front of them
     # so this id would be unique