diff --git a/src/include/storage/store/csr_chunked_node_group.h b/src/include/storage/store/csr_chunked_node_group.h
index 8846d1d0b5b..c7a02d68274 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/store/csr_chunked_node_group.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/store/csr_chunked_node_group.h
@@ -131,6 +131,11 @@ class ChunkedCSRNodeGroup final : public ChunkedNodeGroup {
 
     void flush(FileHandle& dataFH) override;
 
+    // this does not override ChunkedNodeGroup::merge() since clang-tidy analyzer seems to struggle
+    // with detecting the std::move of the header in that case
+    void mergeChunkedCSRGroup(ChunkedCSRNodeGroup& base,
+        const std::vector<common::column_id_t>& columnsToMergeInto);
+
 private:
     ChunkedCSRHeader csrHeader;
 };
diff --git a/src/processor/operator/persistent/rel_batch_insert.cpp b/src/processor/operator/persistent/rel_batch_insert.cpp
index ec0d89ce215..5c03f3c9cdf 100644
--- a/src/processor/operator/persistent/rel_batch_insert.cpp
+++ b/src/processor/operator/persistent/rel_batch_insert.cpp
@@ -91,8 +91,10 @@ static void appendNewChunkedGroup(MemoryManager& mm, transaction::Transaction* t
     // in the node group)
     relTable.pushInsertInfo(transaction, direction, nodeGroup, chunkedGroup.getNumRows(), source);
     if (isNewNodeGroup) {
+        ChunkedCSRNodeGroup sliceToWriteToDisk{chunkedGroup, columnIDs};
         auto flushedChunkedGroup =
-            chunkedGroup.flushAsNewChunkedNodeGroup(transaction, *relTable.getDataFH());
+            sliceToWriteToDisk.flushAsNewChunkedNodeGroup(transaction, *relTable.getDataFH());
+        chunkedGroup.mergeChunkedCSRGroup(sliceToWriteToDisk, columnIDs);
 
         // If there are deleted columns that haven't been vaccumed yet
         // we need to add extra columns to the chunked group
diff --git a/src/storage/store/csr_chunked_node_group.cpp b/src/storage/store/csr_chunked_node_group.cpp
index cbc15fd7871..03238d2da2b 100644
--- a/src/storage/store/csr_chunked_node_group.cpp
+++ b/src/storage/store/csr_chunked_node_group.cpp
@@ -265,6 +265,12 @@ void ChunkedCSRNodeGroup::flush(FileHandle& dataFH) {
     }
 }
 
+void ChunkedCSRNodeGroup::mergeChunkedCSRGroup(ChunkedCSRNodeGroup& base,
+    const std::vector<common::column_id_t>& columnsToMergeInto) {
+    ChunkedNodeGroup::merge(base, columnsToMergeInto);
+    csrHeader = std::move(base.csrHeader);
+}
+
 void ChunkedCSRNodeGroup::scanCSRHeader(MemoryManager& memoryManager,
     CSRNodeGroupCheckpointState& csrState) const {
     if (!csrState.oldHeader) {