diff --git a/railties/lib/tasks/databases.rake b/railties/lib/tasks/databases.rake
index fe099e30b9..f40f8463f7 100644
--- a/railties/lib/tasks/databases.rake
+++ b/railties/lib/tasks/databases.rake
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ namespace :db do
       when 'postgresql'
         @encoding = config[:encoding] || ENV['CHARSET'] || 'utf8'
         begin
-          ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(config.merge('database' => 'postgres'))
+          ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(config.merge('database' => 'postgres', 'schema_search_path' => 'public'))
           ActiveRecord::Base.connection.create_database(config['database'], config.merge('encoding' => @encoding))
           ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(config)
         rescue
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ def drop_database(config)
   when /^sqlite/
     FileUtils.rm(File.join(RAILS_ROOT, config['database']))
   when 'postgresql'
-    ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(config.merge('database' => 'postgres'))
+    ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(config.merge('database' => 'postgres', 'schema_search_path' => 'public'))
     ActiveRecord::Base.connection.drop_database config['database']
   end
 end