diff --git a/libs/proxy/tokio-postgres2/src/client.rs b/libs/proxy/tokio-postgres2/src/client.rs
index 67a68c7dea..10fb853175 100644
--- a/libs/proxy/tokio-postgres2/src/client.rs
+++ b/libs/proxy/tokio-postgres2/src/client.rs
@@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ impl Client {
         rx
     }
 
+    /// Wait until this connection has no more active queries.
     pub async fn wait_until_ready(&mut self) -> Result<ReadyForQueryStatus, Error> {
         self.inner_mut().responses.wait_until_ready().await
     }
@@ -329,11 +330,6 @@ impl Client {
         Ok(())
     }
 
-    /// Commit the transaction.
-    pub async fn commit(&mut self) -> Result<ReadyForQueryStatus, Error> {
-        self.batch_execute("COMMIT").await
-    }
-
     /// Constructs a cancellation token that can later be used to request cancellation of a query running on the
     /// connection associated with this client.
     pub fn cancel_token(&self) -> CancelToken {
diff --git a/proxy/src/serverless/sql_over_http.rs b/proxy/src/serverless/sql_over_http.rs
index 89f17ebdd4..66ee26b781 100644
--- a/proxy/src/serverless/sql_over_http.rs
+++ b/proxy/src/serverless/sql_over_http.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-use std::pin::pin;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
 use bytes::Bytes;
 use futures::future::try_join;
-use futures::{FutureExt, TryFutureExt, TryStreamExt};
+use futures::{TryFutureExt, TryStreamExt};
 use http::Method;
 use http::header::AUTHORIZATION;
 use http_body_util::combinators::BoxBody;
@@ -530,13 +529,13 @@ async fn handle_db_inner(
                         let (cli_inner, _dsc) = client.client_inner();
                         cli_inner.set_jwt_session(&payload).await?;
                     }
-                    Client::Local(client)
+                    Box::new(Client::Local(client))
                 }
                 _ => {
                     let client = backend
                         .connect_to_compute(ctx, conn_info, keys, !allow_pool)
                         .await?;
-                    Client::Remote(client)
+                    Box::new(Client::Remote(client))
                 }
             };
 
@@ -550,10 +549,7 @@ async fn handle_db_inner(
 
     let (payload, mut client) = match run_until_cancelled(
         // Run both operations in parallel
-        try_join(
-            pin!(fetch_and_process_request),
-            pin!(authenticate_and_connect),
-        ),
+        try_join(fetch_and_process_request, authenticate_and_connect),
         &cancel,
     )
     .await
@@ -562,6 +558,20 @@ async fn handle_db_inner(
         None => return Err(SqlOverHttpError::Cancelled(SqlOverHttpCancel::Connect)),
     };
 
+    // Now execute the query and return the result.
+    let json_output = match payload
+        .process(&config.http_config, cancel, &mut client, parsed_headers)
+        .await
+    {
+        Ok(json_output) => json_output,
+        Err(error) => {
+            if let SqlOverHttpError::Cancelled(_) = error {
+                cancel_query(&mut client).await;
+            }
+            return Err(error);
+        }
+    };
+
     let mut response = Response::builder()
         .status(StatusCode::OK)
         .header(header::CONTENT_TYPE, "application/json");
@@ -581,22 +591,6 @@ async fn handle_db_inner(
         }
     }
 
-    // Now execute the query and return the result.
-    let json_output = match payload
-        .process(&config.http_config, cancel, &mut client, parsed_headers)
-        .await
-    {
-        Ok(json_output) => json_output,
-        Err(error) => {
-            if let SqlOverHttpError::Cancelled(_) = error {
-                cancel_query(&mut client).await;
-            }
-            return Err(error);
-        }
-    };
-
-    let metrics = client.metrics(ctx);
-
     let len = json_output.len();
     let response = response
         .body(
@@ -610,6 +604,7 @@ async fn handle_db_inner(
 
     // count the egress bytes - we miss the TLS and header overhead but oh well...
     // moving this later in the stack is going to be a lot of effort and ehhhh
+    let metrics = client.metrics(ctx);
     metrics.record_egress(len as u64);
     metrics.record_ingress(request_len as u64);
 
@@ -678,7 +673,7 @@ async fn handle_auth_broker_inner(
 
 impl Payload {
     async fn process(
-        self,
+        &self,
         config: &'static HttpConfig,
         cancel: CancellationToken,
         client: &mut Client,
@@ -708,7 +703,7 @@ impl Payload {
                 .map_err(SqlOverHttpError::Postgres)?;
         }
 
-        let json_output = json::value_to_string!(|value| match self {
+        let json_output = json::value_to_string!(|value| match &self {
             Payload::Single(query) => {
                 query_to_json(config, &cancel, inner, query, value, parsed_headers).await?;
             }
@@ -716,7 +711,7 @@ impl Payload {
                 let mut obj = value.object();
                 let mut results = obj.key("results").list();
 
-                for query in batch.queries {
+                for query in &batch.queries {
                     let value = results.entry();
                     query_to_json(config, &cancel, inner, query, value, parsed_headers).await?;
                 }
@@ -728,7 +723,7 @@ impl Payload {
 
         if needs_tx {
             inner
-                .commit()
+                .batch_execute("COMMIT")
                 .await
                 .inspect_err(|_| {
                     // if we cannot commit - for now don't return connection to pool
@@ -777,22 +772,22 @@ async fn query_to_json(
     config: &'static HttpConfig,
     cancel: &CancellationToken,
     client: &mut postgres_client::Client,
-    data: QueryData,
+    data: &QueryData,
     output: json::ValueSer<'_>,
     parsed_headers: HttpHeaders,
 ) -> Result<ReadyForQueryStatus, SqlOverHttpError> {
     let query_start = Instant::now();
 
-    let mut output = json::ObjectSer::new(output);
-
-    let mut row_stream =
-        run_until_cancelled(client.query_raw_txt(&data.query, data.params), cancel)
-            .await
-            .ok_or(SqlOverHttpError::Cancelled(SqlOverHttpCancel::Postgres))?
-            .map_err(SqlOverHttpError::Postgres)?;
+    let params = data.params.iter().map(Option::as_deref);
+    let mut row_stream = run_until_cancelled(client.query_raw_txt(&data.query, params), cancel)
+        .await
+        .ok_or(SqlOverHttpError::Cancelled(SqlOverHttpCancel::Postgres))?
+        .map_err(SqlOverHttpError::Postgres)?;
 
     let query_acknowledged = Instant::now();
 
+    let mut output = json::ObjectSer::new(output);
+
     let mut json_fields = output.key("fields").list();
     for c in row_stream.statement.columns() {
         let json_field = json_fields.entry();