diff --git a/000-configure-stats.sh b/000-configure-stats.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 1a3d5f5..0000000
--- a/000-configure-stats.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# make bash behave
-set -euo pipefail
-IFS=$'\n\t'
-
-if [ -n "${DISABLE_STATS_COLLECTION+set}" ]; then
-  echo "Anonymous statistics collection disabled" >&2
-
-  echo 'citus.enable_statistics_collection=off' >> "${PGDATA}/postgresql.conf"
-  pg_ctl -D "${PGDATA}" reload -s
-fi
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 1122df0..fdcf2a7 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ RUN apt-get update \
 RUN echo "shared_preload_libraries='citus'" >> /usr/share/postgresql/postgresql.conf.sample
 
 # add scripts to run after initdb
-COPY 000-configure-stats.sh 001-create-citus-extension.sql /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/
+COPY 001-create-citus-extension.sql /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/
 
 # add health check script
 COPY pg_healthcheck wait-for-manager.sh /
diff --git a/Dockerfile-alpine b/Dockerfile-alpine
index cee2509..f222cea 100644
--- a/Dockerfile-alpine
+++ b/Dockerfile-alpine
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ RUN apk add --no-cache \
 RUN echo "shared_preload_libraries='citus'" >> /usr/local/share/postgresql/postgresql.conf.sample
 
 # add scripts to run after initdb
-COPY 000-configure-stats.sh 001-create-citus-extension.sql /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/
+COPY 001-create-citus-extension.sql /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/
 
 # add health check script
 COPY pg_healthcheck /