diff --git a/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/7_2_0/5722-fix-pg-schema.yaml b/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/7_2_0/5722-fix-pg-schema.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4b7fcd1ebf6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/7_2_0/5722-fix-pg-schema.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+type: fix
+issue: 5722
+title: "An incorrect migration script caused a failure when upgrading to HAPI FHIR 7.0.0 on
+  PostgreSQL if the database was not in the `public` schema. Thanks to GitHub 
+  user @pano-smals for the contribution!"
diff --git a/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-base/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/migrate/tasks/HapiFhirJpaMigrationTasks.java b/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-base/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/migrate/tasks/HapiFhirJpaMigrationTasks.java
index 4046890a9f00..7c44f0a4b98e 100644
--- a/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-base/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/migrate/tasks/HapiFhirJpaMigrationTasks.java
+++ b/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-base/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/migrate/tasks/HapiFhirJpaMigrationTasks.java
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ protected void init700() {
 		{
 			version.executeRawSql(
 							"20231212.1",
-							"CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY idx_sp_string_hash_nrm_pattern_ops ON public.hfj_spidx_string USING btree (hash_norm_prefix, sp_value_normalized varchar_pattern_ops, res_id, partition_id)")
+							"CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY idx_sp_string_hash_nrm_pattern_ops ON hfj_spidx_string USING btree (hash_norm_prefix, sp_value_normalized varchar_pattern_ops, res_id, partition_id)")
 					.setTransactional(false)
 					.onlyAppliesToPlatforms(DriverTypeEnum.POSTGRES_9_4)
 					.onlyIf(
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ protected void init700() {
 							"Index idx_sp_string_hash_nrm_pattern_ops already exists");
 			version.executeRawSql(
 							"20231212.2",
-							"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX CONCURRENTLY idx_sp_uri_hash_identity_pattern_ops ON public.hfj_spidx_uri USING btree (hash_identity, sp_uri varchar_pattern_ops, res_id, partition_id)")
+							"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX CONCURRENTLY idx_sp_uri_hash_identity_pattern_ops ON hfj_spidx_uri USING btree (hash_identity, sp_uri varchar_pattern_ops, res_id, partition_id)")
 					.setTransactional(false)
 					.onlyAppliesToPlatforms(DriverTypeEnum.POSTGRES_9_4)
 					.onlyIf(
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f527f848e350..a7def108081f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -892,6 +892,10 @@
 			<name>Max Bureck</name>
 			<organization>Fraunhofer FOKUS</organization>
 		</developer>
+		<developer>
+			<id>pano-smals</id>
+			<name>pano-smals</name>
+		</developer>
 	</developers>
 
 	<licenses>