diff --git a/.env b/.env
index 430cdac1d5d..db8bdb8dba2 100644
--- a/.env
+++ b/.env
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ SNUBA_IMAGE=getsentry/snuba:nightly
 RELAY_IMAGE=getsentry/relay:nightly
 SYMBOLICATOR_IMAGE=getsentry/symbolicator:nightly
 VROOM_IMAGE=getsentry/vroom:nightly
-WAL2JSON_VERSION=latest
 HEALTHCHECK_INTERVAL=30s
 HEALTHCHECK_TIMEOUT=1m30s
 HEALTHCHECK_RETRIES=10
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7311a09ae9c..13f8982c056 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -98,9 +98,6 @@ geoip/GeoIP.conf
 geoip/*.mmdb
 geoip/.geoipupdate.lock
 
-# wal2json download
-postgres/wal2json
-
 # integration testing
 _integration-test/custom-ca-roots/nginx/*
 sentry/test-custom-ca-roots.py
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index ce67c1a72e2..654220d4ded 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -126,23 +126,12 @@ services:
       [
         "postgres",
         "-c",
-        "wal_level=logical",
-        "-c",
-        "max_replication_slots=1",
-        "-c",
-        "max_wal_senders=1",
-        "-c",
         "max_connections=${POSTGRES_MAX_CONNECTIONS:-100}",
       ]
     environment:
       POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD: "trust"
-    entrypoint: /opt/sentry/postgres-entrypoint.sh
     volumes:
       - "sentry-postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data"
-      - type: bind
-        read_only: true
-        source: ./postgres/
-        target: /opt/sentry/
   zookeeper:
     <<: *restart_policy
     image: "confluentinc/cp-zookeeper:7.6.1"
diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index ac5a2f0f4b2..ee2e008d1e7 100755
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ source install/ensure-relay-credentials.sh
 source install/generate-secret-key.sh
 source install/update-docker-images.sh
 source install/build-docker-images.sh
-source install/install-wal2json.sh
 source install/bootstrap-snuba.sh
 source install/upgrade-postgres.sh
 source install/set-up-and-migrate-database.sh
diff --git a/install/install-wal2json.sh b/install/install-wal2json.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 9df0df7603e..00000000000
--- a/install/install-wal2json.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-echo "${_group}Downloading and installing wal2json ..."
-
-WAL2JSON_DIR=postgres/wal2json
-FILE_TO_USE="$WAL2JSON_DIR/wal2json.so"
-ARCH=$(uname -m)
-FILE_NAME="wal2json-Linux-$ARCH-glibc.so"
-
-docker_curl() {
-  # The environment variables can be specified in lower case or upper case.
-  # The lower case version has precedence. http_proxy is an exception as it is only available in lower case.
-  docker run --rm -e http_proxy -e https_proxy -e HTTPS_PROXY -e no_proxy -e NO_PROXY curlimages/curl:7.77.0 \
-    --connect-timeout 5 \
-    --max-time 10 \
-    --retry 5 \
-    --retry-max-time 60 \
-    "$@"
-}
-
-if [[ $WAL2JSON_VERSION == "latest" ]]; then
-  # Hard-code this. Super-hacky. We were curling the GitHub API here but
-  # hitting rate limits in CI. This library hasn't seen a new release for a
-  # year and a half at time of writing.
-  #
-  # If you're reading this do us a favor and go check:
-  #
-  #   https://github.com/getsentry/wal2json/releases
-  #
-  # If there's a new release can you update this please? If not maybe subscribe
-  # for notifications on the repo with "Watch > Custom > Releases". Together we
-  # can make a difference.
-  VERSION=0.0.2
-else
-  VERSION=$WAL2JSON_VERSION
-fi
-
-mkdir -p "$WAL2JSON_DIR"
-if [ ! -f "$WAL2JSON_DIR/$VERSION/$FILE_NAME" ]; then
-  mkdir -p "$WAL2JSON_DIR/$VERSION"
-  docker_curl -L \
-    "https://github.com/getsentry/wal2json/releases/download/$VERSION/$FILE_NAME" \
-    >"$WAL2JSON_DIR/$VERSION/$FILE_NAME"
-fi
-cp "$WAL2JSON_DIR/$VERSION/$FILE_NAME" "$FILE_TO_USE"
-
-echo "${_endgroup}"
diff --git a/postgres/init_hba.sh b/postgres/init_hba.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 9952ab14864..00000000000
--- a/postgres/init_hba.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Initializes the pg_hba file with access permissions to the replication
-# slots.
-
-set -e
-
-{ echo "host replication all all trust"; } >>"$PGDATA/pg_hba.conf"
diff --git a/postgres/postgres-entrypoint.sh b/postgres/postgres-entrypoint.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 68a469f7cae..00000000000
--- a/postgres/postgres-entrypoint.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# This script replaces the default docker entrypoint for postgres in the
-# development environment.
-# Its job is to ensure postgres is properly configured to support the
-# Change Data Capture pipeline (by setting access permissions and installing
-# the replication plugin we use for CDC). Unfortunately the default
-# Postgres image does not allow this level of configurability so we need
-# to do it this way in order not to have to publish and maintain our own
-# Postgres image.
-#
-# This then, at the end, transfers control to the default entrypoint.
-
-set -e
-
-prep_init_db() {
-  cp /opt/sentry/init_hba.sh /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init_hba.sh
-}
-
-cdc_setup_hba_conf() {
-  # Ensure pg-hba is properly configured to allow connections
-  # to the replication slots.
-
-  PG_HBA="$PGDATA/pg_hba.conf"
-  if [ ! -f "$PG_HBA" ]; then
-    echo "DB not initialized. Postgres will take care of pg_hba"
-  elif [ "$(grep -c -E "^host\s+replication" "$PGDATA"/pg_hba.conf)" != 0 ]; then
-    echo "Replication config already present in pg_hba. Not changing anything."
-  else
-    # Execute the same script we run on DB initialization
-    /opt/sentry/init_hba.sh
-  fi
-}
-
-bind_wal2json() {
-  # Copy the file in the right place
-  cp /opt/sentry/wal2json/wal2json.so $(pg_config --pkglibdir)/wal2json.so
-}
-
-echo "Setting up Change Data Capture"
-
-prep_init_db
-if [ "$1" = 'postgres' ]; then
-  cdc_setup_hba_conf
-  bind_wal2json
-fi
-exec /usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh "$@"
diff --git a/scripts/bump-version.sh b/scripts/bump-version.sh
index e59a1d1eb27..808df09aa17 100755
--- a/scripts/bump-version.sh
+++ b/scripts/bump-version.sh
@@ -4,11 +4,7 @@ set -eu
 OLD_VERSION="$1"
 NEW_VERSION="$2"
 
-WAL2JSON_VERSION=${WAL2JSON_VERSION:-$(curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/getsentry/wal2json/releases/latest" | grep -Po '"tag_name": "\K.*?(?=")')}
-
-sed -i -e "s/^WAL2JSON_VERSION=\([^:]\+\):.\+\$/WAL2JSON_VERSION=\1:$WAL2JSON_VERSION/" .env
 sed -i -e "s/^\(SENTRY\|SNUBA\|RELAY\|SYMBOLICATOR\|VROOM\)_IMAGE=\([^:]\+\):.\+\$/\1_IMAGE=\2:$NEW_VERSION/" .env
 sed -i -e "s/^\# Self-Hosted Sentry .*/# Self-Hosted Sentry $NEW_VERSION/" README.md
 
 echo "New version: $NEW_VERSION"
-echo "New wal2json version: $WAL2JSON_VERSION"