diff --git a/src/main/java/org/rumbledb/api/Rumble.java b/src/main/java/org/rumbledb/api/Rumble.java
index 611df17a6..b30c4c53c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/rumbledb/api/Rumble.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/rumbledb/api/Rumble.java
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
 import org.rumbledb.context.DynamicContext;
 import org.rumbledb.expressions.module.MainModule;
 import org.rumbledb.runtime.RuntimeIterator;
-import org.rumbledb.runtime.update.PendingUpdateList;
-
 import sparksoniq.spark.SparkSessionManager;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -74,11 +72,6 @@ public SequenceOfItems runQuery(URI location) throws IOException {
             this.configuration
         );
 
-        if (iterator.isUpdating()) {
-            PendingUpdateList pul = iterator.getPendingUpdateList(dynamicContext);
-            pul.applyUpdates(iterator.getMetadata());
-        }
-
         return new SequenceOfItems(iterator, dynamicContext, this.configuration);
     }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/rumbledb/runtime/flwor/clauses/LetClauseSparkIterator.java b/src/main/java/org/rumbledb/runtime/flwor/clauses/LetClauseSparkIterator.java
index 8328db3e7..8f4e9c098 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/rumbledb/runtime/flwor/clauses/LetClauseSparkIterator.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/rumbledb/runtime/flwor/clauses/LetClauseSparkIterator.java
@@ -283,7 +283,6 @@ public FlworDataFrame getDataFrameAsJoin(
                 );
             }
         }
-
         if (rightDependencies.size() == 1 && rightDependencies.contains(Name.CONTEXT_ITEM)) {
             if (!leftDependencies.contains(Name.CONTEXT_ITEM)) {
                 contextItemValueExpression = rightHandSideOfJoinEqualityCriterion;
@@ -295,12 +294,6 @@ public FlworDataFrame getDataFrameAsJoin(
                 );
             }
         }
-        if (inputTupleValueExpression == null) {
-            throw new JobWithinAJobException(
-                    "A let clause expression cannot produce a big sequence of items for a big number of tuples, as this would lead to a data flow explosion. We did detect a predicate expression, but the criterion inside the predicate is not comparing the left-hand-side of this predicate to the input tuple.",
-                    getMetadata()
-            );
-        }
 
         // Now we know we can execute the query as an equi-join.
         // First, we evaluate all input tuples.
@@ -335,6 +328,8 @@ public FlworDataFrame getDataFrameAsJoin(
             sequenceDependencies
         ).getDataFrame();
 
+        LogManager.getLogger("LetClauseSparkIterator").info("Rumble detected an equi-join in the left clause.");
+
         // We compute the hashes for both sides of the equality predicate.
         expressionDF = LetClauseSparkIterator.bindLetVariableInDataFrame(
             expressionDF,
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/rumbledb/runtime/flwor/udfs/GroupClauseArrayMergeAggregateResultsUDF.java b/src/main/java/org/rumbledb/runtime/flwor/udfs/GroupClauseArrayMergeAggregateResultsUDF.java
index c1f222183..e1c3e189f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/rumbledb/runtime/flwor/udfs/GroupClauseArrayMergeAggregateResultsUDF.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/rumbledb/runtime/flwor/udfs/GroupClauseArrayMergeAggregateResultsUDF.java
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
 
 
 import java.util.ArrayList;
-// import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
 
 public class GroupClauseArrayMergeAggregateResultsUDF implements UDF1<ArraySeq<Object>, Object[]> {
diff --git a/src/test/java/iq/RuntimeTests.java b/src/test/java/iq/RuntimeTests.java
index 8aa8b594c..71674f4ff 100644
--- a/src/test/java/iq/RuntimeTests.java
+++ b/src/test/java/iq/RuntimeTests.java
@@ -21,9 +21,6 @@
 package iq;
 
 import iq.base.AnnotationsTestsBase;
-import scala.Function0;
-import scala.util.Properties;
-
 import org.apache.spark.SparkConf;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaRDD;
 import org.junit.Assert;