diff --git a/apps/sim/background/cleanup-logs.ts b/apps/sim/background/cleanup-logs.ts
index 343e388ed2b..2ee922fb7e0 100644
--- a/apps/sim/background/cleanup-logs.ts
+++ b/apps/sim/background/cleanup-logs.ts
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ async function cleanupLegacyLargeExecutionValues(
                       SELECT 1
                       FROM ${pausedExecutions} AS ref_pe
                       WHERE ref_pe.execution_id = ref.execution_id
-                        AND ref_pe.status = ANY(${LIVE_PAUSED_REFERENCE_STATUSES}::text[])
+                        AND ref_pe.status IN ${LIVE_PAUSED_REFERENCE_STATUSES}
                     )
                   )
                 )
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ async function cleanupLegacyLargeExecutionValues(
                     SELECT 1
                     FROM ${pausedExecutions} AS parent_owner_pe
                     WHERE parent_owner_pe.execution_id = parent_value.owner_execution_id
-                      AND parent_owner_pe.status = ANY(${LIVE_PAUSED_REFERENCE_STATUSES}::text[])
+                      AND parent_owner_pe.status IN ${LIVE_PAUSED_REFERENCE_STATUSES}
                   )
                   OR EXISTS (
                     SELECT 1
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ async function cleanupLegacyLargeExecutionValues(
                             SELECT 1
                             FROM ${pausedExecutions} AS parent_ref_pe
                             WHERE parent_ref_pe.execution_id = parent_ref.execution_id
-                              AND parent_ref_pe.status = ANY(${LIVE_PAUSED_REFERENCE_STATUSES}::text[])
+                              AND parent_ref_pe.status IN ${LIVE_PAUSED_REFERENCE_STATUSES}
                           )
                         )
                       )
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ async function cleanupLegacyLargeExecutionValues(
               SELECT 1
               FROM ${pausedExecutions} AS pe
               WHERE pe.execution_id = split_part(${workspaceFiles.key}, '/', 4)
-                AND pe.status = ANY(${LIVE_PAUSED_REFERENCE_STATUSES}::text[])
+                AND pe.status IN ${LIVE_PAUSED_REFERENCE_STATUSES}
             )`
           )
         )
diff --git a/apps/sim/lib/execution/payloads/large-value-metadata.ts b/apps/sim/lib/execution/payloads/large-value-metadata.ts
index 41d56fbf2e2..c98f4756c5e 100644
--- a/apps/sim/lib/execution/payloads/large-value-metadata.ts
+++ b/apps/sim/lib/execution/payloads/large-value-metadata.ts
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ async function pruneStaleReferences(
                 SELECT 1
                 FROM ${pausedExecutions} AS pe
                 WHERE pe.execution_id = ref.execution_id
-                  AND pe.status = ANY(${LIVE_PAUSED_REFERENCE_STATUSES}::text[])
+                  AND pe.status IN ${LIVE_PAUSED_REFERENCE_STATUSES}
               )
             )
             OR ref.source NOT IN ('execution_log', 'paused_snapshot')
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ export function unreferencedLargeValuePredicate() {
               SELECT 1
               FROM ${pausedExecutions} AS pe
               WHERE pe.execution_id = elvr.execution_id
-                AND pe.status = ANY(${LIVE_PAUSED_REFERENCE_STATUSES}::text[])
+                AND pe.status IN ${LIVE_PAUSED_REFERENCE_STATUSES}
             )
           )
         )
@@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ export function unreferencedLargeValuePredicate() {
       SELECT 1
       FROM ${pausedExecutions} AS owner_pe
       WHERE owner_pe.execution_id = ${executionLargeValues.ownerExecutionId}
-        AND owner_pe.status = ANY(${LIVE_PAUSED_REFERENCE_STATUSES}::text[])
+        AND owner_pe.status IN ${LIVE_PAUSED_REFERENCE_STATUSES}
     )
     AND NOT EXISTS (
       SELECT 1
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ export function unreferencedLargeValuePredicate() {
             SELECT 1
             FROM ${pausedExecutions} AS parent_owner_pe
             WHERE parent_owner_pe.execution_id = parent_value.owner_execution_id
-              AND parent_owner_pe.status = ANY(${LIVE_PAUSED_REFERENCE_STATUSES}::text[])
+              AND parent_owner_pe.status IN ${LIVE_PAUSED_REFERENCE_STATUSES}
           )
           OR EXISTS (
             SELECT 1
@@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ export function unreferencedLargeValuePredicate() {
                     SELECT 1
                     FROM ${pausedExecutions} AS parent_ref_pe
                     WHERE parent_ref_pe.execution_id = parent_ref.execution_id
-                      AND parent_ref_pe.status = ANY(${LIVE_PAUSED_REFERENCE_STATUSES}::text[])
+                      AND parent_ref_pe.status IN ${LIVE_PAUSED_REFERENCE_STATUSES}
                   )
                 )
               )
diff --git a/apps/sim/lib/execution/payloads/live-paused-statuses-sql.test.ts b/apps/sim/lib/execution/payloads/live-paused-statuses-sql.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..812b1d64944
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/sim/lib/execution/payloads/live-paused-statuses-sql.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+/**
+ * @vitest-environment node
+ */
+
+// Renders the real predicate against the real drizzle dialect and schema: the
+// bug this guards against is a SQL *rendering* bug, so the global drizzle-orm
+// and schema mocks would hide it entirely.
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+
+vi.unmock('drizzle-orm')
+vi.unmock('@sim/db')
+vi.unmock('@sim/db/schema')
+
+process.env.DATABASE_URL ??= 'postgresql://user:pass@localhost:5432/test'
+
+const { PgDialect } = await import('drizzle-orm/pg-core')
+const { LIVE_PAUSED_REFERENCE_STATUSES, unreferencedLargeValuePredicate } = await import(
+  '@/lib/execution/payloads/large-value-metadata'
+)
+
+describe('unreferencedLargeValuePredicate SQL', () => {
+  const { sql: text, params } = new PgDialect().sqlToQuery(unreferencedLargeValuePredicate())
+
+  it('compares paused status against an IN list', () => {
+    expect(text).toMatch(/\.status IN \(\$\d+, \$\d+, \$\d+\)/)
+    expect(params).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining([...LIVE_PAUSED_REFERENCE_STATUSES]))
+  })
+
+  it('never emits ANY() over drizzle-expanded statuses', () => {
+    // Drizzle renders a JS array as `($1, $2, $3)` — correct for IN, but
+    // `ANY((...)::text[])` makes Postgres reject the whole statement with
+    // "cannot cast type record to text[]", which killed cleanup-logs for two months.
+    expect(text).not.toMatch(/ANY\(\(\$\d+/)
+  })
+
+  it('never emits a dangling comparison operator before IN', () => {
+    // `status = IN (...)` is a syntax error Postgres only reports at execution time.
+    expect(text).not.toMatch(/=\s*IN\s*\(/)
+  })
+})