diff --git a/scripts/update.sh b/scripts/update.sh
index c095d94..274dfe6 100755
--- a/scripts/update.sh
+++ b/scripts/update.sh
@@ -106,5 +106,15 @@ set -a && . ./.env && set +a
 echo "==> recreating changed services"
 docker compose up -d --remove-orphans
 
+# litellm-pgvector's Dockerfile only runs `prisma generate` (codegen) at
+# build time — nothing ever applied the schema to pgvector-db itself, so the
+# vector_stores/embeddings tables plain didn't exist until this was added
+# (see issue #24). --accept-data-loss is the same "no rollback/backup logic,
+# git revert is the recovery path" tradeoff as the rest of this script — a
+# schema-incompatible change here would need a manual look regardless.
+echo "==> syncing litellm-pgvector's database schema"
+docker compose up -d --wait pgvector-db litellm-pgvector
+docker compose exec -T litellm-pgvector prisma db push --accept-data-loss
+
 echo "==> status"
 docker compose ps