diff --git a/rag-service/src/main/resources/application.properties b/rag-service/src/main/resources/application.properties
index de2bf05..84c1a5a 100644
--- a/rag-service/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/rag-service/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update
 # Embedding via separate OpenAI API bean (see EmbeddingConfig.java)
 embedding.openai.api-key=${OPENAI_API_KEY:}
 embedding.openai.model=text-embedding-3-small
+spring.ai.vectorstore.pgvector.initialize-schema=true
 
 # --- Consul service discovery ---
 spring.cloud.consul.host=${SPRING_CLOUD_CONSUL_HOST:localhost}