diff --git a/charts/supabase/Chart.yaml b/charts/supabase/Chart.yaml
index 83c34661..c3c2905b 100644
--- a/charts/supabase/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/supabase/Chart.yaml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ type: application
 # This is the chart version. This version number should be incremented each time you make changes
 # to the chart and its templates, including the app version.
 # Versions are expected to follow Semantic Versioning (https://semver.org/)
-version: 0.7.2
+version: 0.7.3
 
 # This is the version number of the application being deployed. This version number should be
 # incremented each time you make changes to the application. Versions are not expected to
diff --git a/charts/supabase/templates/db/statefulset.yaml b/charts/supabase/templates/db/statefulset.yaml
index b845b12d..5a791e56 100644
--- a/charts/supabase/templates/db/statefulset.yaml
+++ b/charts/supabase/templates/db/statefulset.yaml
@@ -62,13 +62,15 @@ spec:
           command: ["/bin/sh", "-c"]
           args:
             - |
-              echo "Initializing pgsodium persistent config directory..."
-              if [ -z "$(ls -A /mnt/pgsodium 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
-                echo "pgsodium volume is empty, copying default postgresql-custom files..."
-                cp -a /etc/postgresql-custom/. /mnt/pgsodium/
-              else
-                echo "pgsodium volume already initialized, skipping copy"
-              fi
+              echo "Ensuring default postgresql-custom files exist..."
+              # Idempotent, no-clobber copy: seeds any missing config files without
+              # overwriting existing ones (preserves runtime-generated pgsodium keys).
+              # An emptiness check ([ -z "$(ls -A)" ]) is unreliable here: block-storage
+              # volumes (EBS, GCE PD, Ceph RBD, OpenEBS LVM, ...) are formatted ext4/xfs
+              # and ship a lost+found directory, so the volume is never truly empty on
+              # first use, the copy was skipped, and postgres could not open its
+              # included /etc/postgresql-custom/*.conf files (CrashLoopBackOff).
+              cp -an /etc/postgresql-custom/. /mnt/pgsodium/ 2>/dev/null || true
           volumeMounts:
             - mountPath: /mnt/pgsodium
               name: pgsodium