diff --git a/src/persist-client/src/internal/compact.rs b/src/persist-client/src/internal/compact.rs
index 29b8627fa67d4..26922db118b59 100644
--- a/src/persist-client/src/internal/compact.rs
+++ b/src/persist-client/src/internal/compact.rs
@@ -727,30 +727,16 @@ where
         let mut val_vec = vec![];
         loop {
             let fetch_start = Instant::now();
-            let Some(updates) = consolidator
-                .next_chunk(cfg.compaction_yield_after_n_updates)
-                .await?
-            else {
+            let Some(updates) = consolidator.next().await? else {
                 break;
             };
             timings.part_fetching += fetch_start.elapsed();
-            // We now have a full set of consolidated columnar data here, but no way to push it
-            // into the batch builder yet. Instead, iterate over the codec records and push those
-            // in directly.
-            for ((k, v), t, d) in updates.records().iter() {
+            for ((k, v), t, d) in updates.take(cfg.compaction_yield_after_n_updates) {
                 key_vec.clear();
                 key_vec.extend_from_slice(k);
                 val_vec.clear();
                 val_vec.extend_from_slice(v);
-                batch
-                    .add(
-                        &real_schemas,
-                        &key_vec,
-                        &val_vec,
-                        &T::decode(t),
-                        &D::decode(d),
-                    )
-                    .await?;
+                batch.add(&real_schemas, &key_vec, &val_vec, &t, &d).await?;
             }
             tokio::task::yield_now().await;
         }
diff --git a/src/persist-client/src/iter.rs b/src/persist-client/src/iter.rs
index e7f839ecec16d..8210c81295607 100644
--- a/src/persist-client/src/iter.rs
+++ b/src/persist-client/src/iter.rs
@@ -555,6 +555,7 @@ where
     /// Wait until data is available, then return an iterator over the next
     /// consolidated chunk of output. If this method returns `None`, that all the data has been
     /// exhausted and the full consolidated dataset has been returned.
+    #[allow(dead_code)]
     pub(crate) async fn next_chunk(
         &mut self,
         max_len: usize,