diff --git a/src/backend/distributed/executor/adaptive_executor.c b/src/backend/distributed/executor/adaptive_executor.c
index ae2ae34b7..e5f6620ec 100644
--- a/src/backend/distributed/executor/adaptive_executor.c
+++ b/src/backend/distributed/executor/adaptive_executor.c
@@ -855,6 +855,29 @@ ExecuteUtilityTaskList(List *utilityTaskList, bool localExecutionSupported)
 }
 
 
+/*
+ * ExecuteUtilityTaskListExtended is a wrapper around executing task
+ * list for utility commands.
+ */
+uint64
+ExecuteUtilityTaskListExtended(List *utilityTaskList, int poolSize,
+							   bool localExecutionSupported)
+{
+	RowModifyLevel modLevel = ROW_MODIFY_NONE;
+	ExecutionParams *executionParams = CreateBasicExecutionParams(
+		modLevel, utilityTaskList, poolSize, localExecutionSupported
+		);
+
+	bool excludeFromXact = false;
+	executionParams->xactProperties =
+		DecideTransactionPropertiesForTaskList(modLevel, utilityTaskList,
+											   excludeFromXact);
+	executionParams->isUtilityCommand = true;
+
+	return ExecuteTaskListExtended(executionParams);
+}
+
+
 /*
  * ExecuteTaskListOutsideTransaction is a proxy to ExecuteTaskListExtended
  * with defaults for some of the arguments.
diff --git a/src/backend/distributed/executor/local_executor.c b/src/backend/distributed/executor/local_executor.c
index 100998f40..802a8aac5 100644
--- a/src/backend/distributed/executor/local_executor.c
+++ b/src/backend/distributed/executor/local_executor.c
@@ -366,35 +366,39 @@ ExtractParametersForLocalExecution(ParamListInfo paramListInfo, Oid **parameterT
 static void
 LocallyExecuteUtilityTask(const char *localTaskQueryCommand)
 {
-	RawStmt *localTaskRawStmt = (RawStmt *) ParseTreeRawStmt(localTaskQueryCommand);
+	List *parseTreeList = pg_parse_query(localTaskQueryCommand);
+	RawStmt *localTaskRawStmt = NULL;
 
-	Node *localTaskRawParseTree = localTaskRawStmt->stmt;
-
-	/*
-	 * Actually, the query passed to this function would mostly be a
-	 * utility command to be executed locally. However, some utility
-	 * commands do trigger udf calls (e.g worker_apply_shard_ddl_command)
-	 * to execute commands in a generic way. But as we support local
-	 * execution of utility commands, we should also process those udf
-	 * calls locally as well. In that case, we simply execute the query
-	 * implying the udf call in below conditional block.
-	 */
-	if (IsA(localTaskRawParseTree, SelectStmt))
+	foreach_ptr(localTaskRawStmt, parseTreeList)
 	{
-		/* we have no external parameters to rewrite the UDF call RawStmt */
-		Query *localUdfTaskQuery =
-			RewriteRawQueryStmt(localTaskRawStmt, localTaskQueryCommand, NULL, 0);
+		Node *localTaskRawParseTree = localTaskRawStmt->stmt;
 
-		LocallyExecuteUdfTaskQuery(localUdfTaskQuery);
-	}
-	else
-	{
 		/*
-		 * It is a regular utility command we should execute it locally via
-		 * process utility.
+		 * Actually, the query passed to this function would mostly be a
+		 * utility command to be executed locally. However, some utility
+		 * commands do trigger udf calls (e.g worker_apply_shard_ddl_command)
+		 * to execute commands in a generic way. But as we support local
+		 * execution of utility commands, we should also process those udf
+		 * calls locally as well. In that case, we simply execute the query
+		 * implying the udf call in below conditional block.
 		 */
-		CitusProcessUtility(localTaskRawParseTree, localTaskQueryCommand,
-							PROCESS_UTILITY_TOPLEVEL, NULL, None_Receiver, NULL);
+		if (IsA(localTaskRawParseTree, SelectStmt))
+		{
+			/* we have no external parameters to rewrite the UDF call RawStmt */
+			Query *localUdfTaskQuery =
+				RewriteRawQueryStmt(localTaskRawStmt, localTaskQueryCommand, NULL, 0);
+
+			LocallyExecuteUdfTaskQuery(localUdfTaskQuery);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * It is a regular utility command we should execute it locally via
+			 * process utility.
+			 */
+			CitusProcessUtility(localTaskRawParseTree, localTaskQueryCommand,
+								PROCESS_UTILITY_TOPLEVEL, NULL, None_Receiver, NULL);
+		}
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/src/backend/distributed/master/master_stage_protocol.c b/src/backend/distributed/master/master_stage_protocol.c
index c6c8d57d2..d71cc00d0 100644
--- a/src/backend/distributed/master/master_stage_protocol.c
+++ b/src/backend/distributed/master/master_stage_protocol.c
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ CreateShardsOnWorkers(Oid distributedRelationId, List *shardPlacements,
 		poolSize = MaxAdaptiveExecutorPoolSize;
 	}
 	bool localExecutionSupported = true;
-	ExecuteTaskList(ROW_MODIFY_NONE, taskList, poolSize, localExecutionSupported);
+	ExecuteUtilityTaskListExtended(taskList, poolSize, localExecutionSupported);
 }
 
 
diff --git a/src/include/distributed/adaptive_executor.h b/src/include/distributed/adaptive_executor.h
index 3fec4b8a5..55fe0726c 100644
--- a/src/include/distributed/adaptive_executor.h
+++ b/src/include/distributed/adaptive_executor.h
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ extern int ExecutorSlowStartInterval;
 extern uint64 ExecuteTaskList(RowModifyLevel modLevel, List *taskList,
 							  int targetPoolSize, bool localExecutionSupported);
 extern uint64 ExecuteUtilityTaskList(List *utilityTaskList, bool localExecutionSupported);
+extern uint64 ExecuteUtilityTaskListExtended(List *utilityTaskList, int poolSize,
+											 bool localExecutionSupported);
 extern uint64 ExecuteTaskListOutsideTransaction(RowModifyLevel modLevel, List *taskList,
 												int targetPoolSize, List *jobIdList);