diff --git a/api/src/controllers/seed/insert/entries.ts b/api/src/controllers/seed/insert/entries.ts
index c53590c4..fb5c9e60 100644
--- a/api/src/controllers/seed/insert/entries.ts
+++ b/api/src/controllers/seed/insert/entries.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import {
 	entryVideoJoin,
 	videos,
 } from "~/db/schema";
-import { conflictUpdateAllExcept, values } from "~/db/utils";
+import { conflictUpdateAllExcept, unnestValues, values } from "~/db/utils";
 import type { SeedEntry as SEntry, SeedExtra as SExtra } from "~/models/entry";
 import { enqueueOptImage, flushImageQueue, type ImageTask } from "../images";
 import { guessNextRefresh } from "../refresh";
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ export const insertEntries = async (
 		});
 		const ret = await tx
 			.insert(entries)
-			.values(vals)
+			.select(unnestValues(vals, entries))
 			.onConflictDoUpdate({
 				target: entries.slug,
 				set: conflictUpdateAllExcept(entries, [
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ export const insertEntries = async (
 		await flushImageQueue(tx, imgQueue, 0);
 		await tx
 			.insert(entryTranslations)
-			.values(trans)
+			.select(unnestValues(trans, entryTranslations))
 			.onConflictDoUpdate({
 				target: [entryTranslations.pk, entryTranslations.language],
 				set: conflictUpdateAllExcept(entryTranslations, ["pk", "language"]),
diff --git a/api/src/db/index.ts b/api/src/db/index.ts
index cc4a8901..c7132116 100644
--- a/api/src/db/index.ts
+++ b/api/src/db/index.ts
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 import os from "node:os";
 import path from "node:path";
 import tls, { type ConnectionOptions } from "node:tls";
+import { record } from "@elysiajs/opentelemetry";
 import { instrumentDrizzleClient } from "@kubiks/otel-drizzle";
 import { sql } from "drizzle-orm";
 import { drizzle } from "drizzle-orm/node-postgres";
 import { migrate as migrateDb } from "drizzle-orm/node-postgres/migrator";
 import type { PoolConfig } from "pg";
 import * as schema from "./schema";
-import { record } from "@elysiajs/opentelemetry";
 
 const config: PoolConfig = {
 	connectionString: process.env.POSTGRES_URL,
diff --git a/api/src/db/utils.ts b/api/src/db/utils.ts
index bab0eedf..e76423ed 100644
--- a/api/src/db/utils.ts
+++ b/api/src/db/utils.ts
@@ -8,12 +8,17 @@ import {
 	type Subquery,
 	sql,
 	Table,
+	type TableConfig,
 	View,
 	ViewBaseConfig,
 } from "drizzle-orm";
 import type { CasingCache } from "drizzle-orm/casing";
 import type { AnyMySqlSelect } from "drizzle-orm/mysql-core";
-import type { AnyPgSelect, SelectedFieldsFlat } from "drizzle-orm/pg-core";
+import type {
+	AnyPgSelect,
+	PgTableWithColumns,
+	SelectedFieldsFlat,
+} from "drizzle-orm/pg-core";
 import type { AnySQLiteSelect } from "drizzle-orm/sqlite-core";
 import type { WithSubquery } from "drizzle-orm/subquery";
 import { db } from "./index";
@@ -70,7 +75,15 @@ export function conflictUpdateAllExcept<
 
 // drizzle is bugged and doesn't allow js arrays to be used in raw sql.
 export function sqlarr(array: unknown[]) {
-	return `{${array.map((item) => `"${item}"`).join(",")}}`;
+	return `{${array
+		.map((item) =>
+			!item || item === "null"
+				? "null"
+				: typeof item === "object"
+					? `"${JSON.stringify(item).replaceAll('"', '\\"')}"`
+					: `"${item}"`,
+		)
+		.join(", ")}}`;
 }
 
 // See https://github.com/drizzle-team/drizzle-orm/issues/4044
@@ -103,6 +116,75 @@ export function values<K extends string>(
 	};
 }
 
+/* goal:
+ *  unnestValues([{a: 1, b: 2}, {a: 3, b: 4}], tbl)
+ *
+ * ```sql
+ * select a, b, now() as updated_at from unnest($1::integer[], $2::integer[]);
+ * ```
+ * params:
+ *   $1: [1, 2]
+ *   $2: [3, 4]
+ *
+ * select
+ */
+export const unnestValues = <
+	T extends Record<string, unknown>,
+	C extends TableConfig = never,
+>(
+	values: T[],
+	typeInfo: PgTableWithColumns<C>,
+) => {
+	if (values[0] === undefined)
+		throw new Error("Invalid values, expecting at least one items");
+	const columns = getTableColumns(typeInfo);
+	const keys = Object.keys(values[0]).filter((x) => x in columns);
+	// @ts-expect-error: drizzle internal
+	const casing = db.dialect.casing as CasingCache;
+	const dbNames = Object.fromEntries(
+		Object.entries(columns).map(([k, v]) => [k, casing.getColumnCasing(v)]),
+	);
+	const vals = values.reduce(
+		(acc, cur, i) => {
+			for (const k of keys) {
+				if (k in cur) acc[k].push(cur[k]);
+				else acc[k].push(null);
+			}
+			for (const k of Object.keys(cur)) {
+				if (k in acc) continue;
+				if (!(k in columns)) continue;
+				keys.push(k);
+				acc[k] = new Array(i).fill(null);
+				acc[k].push(cur[k])
+			}
+			return acc;
+		},
+		Object.fromEntries(keys.map((x) => [x, [] as unknown[]])),
+	);
+	const computed = Object.entries(columns)
+		.filter(([k, v]) => (v.defaultFn || v.onUpdateFn) && !keys.includes(k))
+		.map(([k]) => k);
+	return db
+		.select(
+			Object.fromEntries([
+				...keys.map((x) => [x, sql.raw(`"${dbNames[x]}"`)]),
+				...computed.map((x) => [
+					x,
+					(columns[x].defaultFn?.() ?? columns[x].onUpdateFn!()).as(dbNames[x]),
+				]),
+			]),
+		)
+		.from(
+			sql`unnest(${sql.join(
+				keys.map(
+					(k) =>
+						sql`${sqlarr(vals[k])}${sql.raw(`::${columns[k].getSQLType()}[]`)}`,
+				),
+				sql.raw(", "),
+			)}) as v(${sql.raw(keys.map((x) => `"${dbNames[x]}"`).join(", "))})`,
+		);
+};
+
 export const coalesce = <T>(val: SQL<T> | SQLWrapper, def: SQL<T> | Column) => {
 	return sql<T>`coalesce(${val}, ${def})`;
 };
diff --git a/api/tests/misc/images.test.ts b/api/tests/misc/images.test.ts
index db5a3212..acaf6ff6 100644
--- a/api/tests/misc/images.test.ts
+++ b/api/tests/misc/images.test.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ describe("images", () => {
 		const release = await processImages();
 		// remove notifications to prevent other images to be downloaded (do not curl 20000 images for nothing)
 		release();
+		await db.delete(mqueue);
 
 		const ret = await db.query.shows.findFirst({
 			where: eq(shows.slug, madeInAbyss.slug),
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ describe("images", () => {
 		const release = await processImages();
 		// remove notifications to prevent other images to be downloaded (do not curl 20000 images for nothing)
 		release();
+		await db.delete(mqueue);
 
 		const failed = await db.query.mqueue.findFirst({
 			where: and(
diff --git a/api/tests/setup.ts b/api/tests/setup.ts
index 75382825..873c8192 100644
--- a/api/tests/setup.ts
+++ b/api/tests/setup.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { beforeAll } from "bun:test";
 process.env.PGDATABASE = "kyoo_test";
 process.env.JWT_SECRET = "this is a secret";
 process.env.JWT_ISSUER = "https://kyoo.zoriya.dev";
+process.env.IMAGES_PATH = "./images";
 
 beforeAll(async () => {
 	// lazy load this so env set before actually applies