diff --git a/changes/1415.fix.md b/changes/1415.fix.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..264e96765e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/1415.fix.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Make the parsing routine of PostgreSQL version strings more robust with additional build tags
diff --git a/src/ai/backend/manager/models/utils.py b/src/ai/backend/manager/models/utils.py
index 495410ed5d..cd4254c66d 100644
--- a/src/ai/backend/manager/models/utils.py
+++ b/src/ai/backend/manager/models/utils.py
@@ -183,7 +183,8 @@ async def connect_database(
     version_check_db = create_async_engine(url)
     async with version_check_db.begin() as conn:
         result = await conn.execute(sa.text("show server_version"))
-        major, minor, *_ = map(int, result.scalar().split("."))
+        version_str = result.scalar()
+        major, minor, *_ = map(int, version_str.partition(" ")[0].split("."))
         if (major, minor) < (11, 0):
             pgsql_connect_opts["server_settings"].pop("jit")
     await version_check_db.dispose()