diff --git a/test_runner/performance/test_perf_pgbench.py b/test_runner/performance/test_perf_pgbench.py
index 0ed3e45971..015cc40a72 100644
--- a/test_runner/performance/test_perf_pgbench.py
+++ b/test_runner/performance/test_perf_pgbench.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ def run_test_pgbench(env: PgCompare, scale: int, duration: int, workload_type: P
     env.zenbenchmark.record("scale", scale, "", MetricReport.TEST_PARAM)
 
     password = env.pg.default_options.get("password", None)
-    options = "-cstatement_timeout=1h " + env.pg.default_options.get("options", "")
+    options = "-cstatement_timeout=0 " + env.pg.default_options.get("options", "")
     # drop password from the connection string by passing password=None and set password separately
     connstr = env.pg.connstr(password=None, options=options)
 
diff --git a/test_runner/performance/test_seqscans.py b/test_runner/performance/test_seqscans.py
index 4d73939e81..a0a1dbd01d 100644
--- a/test_runner/performance/test_seqscans.py
+++ b/test_runner/performance/test_seqscans.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ from pytest_lazyfixture import lazy_fixture  # type: ignore
 def test_seqscans(env: PgCompare, scale: int, rows: int, iters: int, workers: int):
     rows = scale * rows
 
-    with closing(env.pg.connect()) as conn:
+    with closing(env.pg.connect(options="-cstatement_timeout=0")) as conn:
         with conn.cursor() as cur:
             cur.execute("drop table if exists t;")
             cur.execute("create table t (i integer);")
diff --git a/test_runner/performance/test_wal_backpressure.py b/test_runner/performance/test_wal_backpressure.py
index dd840acd25..f9a18c84fd 100644
--- a/test_runner/performance/test_wal_backpressure.py
+++ b/test_runner/performance/test_wal_backpressure.py
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ def test_pgbench_simple_update_workload(pg_compare: PgCompare, scale: int, durat
 
 def start_pgbench_intensive_initialization(env: PgCompare, scale: int, done_event: threading.Event):
     with env.record_duration("run_duration"):
-        # Needs to increase the statement timeout (default: 120s) because the
+        # Disable statement timeout (default: 120s) because the
         # initialization step can be slow with a large scale.
         env.pg_bin.run_capture(
             [
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ def start_pgbench_intensive_initialization(env: PgCompare, scale: int, done_even
                 f"-s{scale}",
                 "-i",
                 "-Idtg",
-                env.pg.connstr(options="-cstatement_timeout=600s"),
+                env.pg.connstr(options="-cstatement_timeout=0"),
             ]
         )