diff --git a/src/backend/distributed/commands/create_distributed_table.c b/src/backend/distributed/commands/create_distributed_table.c
index 01f4cd739..9d8f7779e 100644
--- a/src/backend/distributed/commands/create_distributed_table.c
+++ b/src/backend/distributed/commands/create_distributed_table.c
@@ -509,6 +509,11 @@ CreateDistributedTable(Oid relationId, Var *distributionColumn, char distributio
 		CreateTruncateTrigger(relationId);
 	}
 
+	if (ShouldSyncTableMetadata(relationId))
+	{
+		SyncCitusTableMetadata(relationId);
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * If we are using master_create_distributed_table, we don't need to continue,
 	 * because deprecated API does not supports the following features.
@@ -534,11 +539,6 @@ CreateDistributedTable(Oid relationId, Var *distributionColumn, char distributio
 		CreateReferenceTableShard(relationId);
 	}
 
-	if (ShouldSyncTableMetadata(relationId))
-	{
-		SyncCitusTableMetadata(relationId);
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * We've a custom way of foreign key graph invalidation,
 	 * see InvalidateForeignKeyGraph().