diff --git a/deploy/docker/fs/opt/appsmith/entrypoint.sh b/deploy/docker/fs/opt/appsmith/entrypoint.sh
index 6001de8d7e..c47fefc3ab 100644
--- a/deploy/docker/fs/opt/appsmith/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/deploy/docker/fs/opt/appsmith/entrypoint.sh
@@ -389,10 +389,10 @@ init_postgres() {
         chown -R postgres:postgres "$POSTGRES_DB_PATH"
     else
       echo "Initializing local postgresql database"
-      mkdir -p "$POSTGRES_DB_PATH" "$TMP/postgres-stats"
+      mkdir -p "$POSTGRES_DB_PATH"
 
       # Postgres does not allow it's server to be run with super user access, we use user postgres and the file system owner also needs to be the same user postgres
-      chown postgres:postgres "$POSTGRES_DB_PATH" "$TMP/postgres-stats"
+      chown postgres:postgres "$POSTGRES_DB_PATH"
 
       # Initialize the postgres db file system
       su postgres -c "/usr/lib/postgresql/13/bin/initdb -D $POSTGRES_DB_PATH"
diff --git a/deploy/docker/fs/opt/appsmith/run-postgres.sh b/deploy/docker/fs/opt/appsmith/run-postgres.sh
index 3d10c5825e..427fa4a677 100755
--- a/deploy/docker/fs/opt/appsmith/run-postgres.sh
+++ b/deploy/docker/fs/opt/appsmith/run-postgres.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 rm -f /appsmith-stacks/data/postgres/main/core.*
-exec /usr/lib/postgresql/13/bin/postgres -D "/appsmith-stacks/data/postgres/main" -c listen_addresses=127.0.0.1 -c stats_temp_directory="$TMP/postgres-stats"
+exec /usr/lib/postgresql/13/bin/postgres -D "/appsmith-stacks/data/postgres/main" -c listen_addresses=127.0.0.1