diff --git a/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/worker_process/main_loop.rs b/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/worker_process/main_loop.rs
index 0f20af6ba2..bca2c13fc4 100644
--- a/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/worker_process/main_loop.rs
+++ b/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/worker_process/main_loop.rs
@@ -53,11 +53,6 @@ pub struct CommunicatorWorkerProcessStruct<'a> {
     /// Local File Cache, relation size tracking, last-written LSN tracking
     pub(crate) cache: IntegratedCacheWriteAccess<'a>,
 
-    /*** Static configuration ***/
-    /// Stripe size doesn't change after startup. (The shard map is not stored here, it's passed
-    /// directly to the client)
-    stripe_size: Option<ShardStripeSize>,
-
     /*** Metrics ***/
     pub(crate) lfc_metrics: LfcMetricsCollector,
 
@@ -157,7 +152,6 @@ pub(super) fn init(
         // Note: it's important to not drop the runtime, or all the tasks are dropped
         // too. Including it in the returned struct is one way to keep it around.
         runtime,
-        stripe_size,
         neon_request_slots: cis.neon_request_slots,
         client,
         cache,
@@ -199,10 +193,10 @@ impl<'t> CommunicatorWorkerProcessStruct<'t> {
     pub(super) fn update_shard_map(
         &self,
         new_shard_map: HashMap<utils::shard::ShardIndex, String>,
+        stripe_size: Option<ShardStripeSize>,
     ) {
         let client = self.client.as_ref().unwrap();
-        let shard_spec =
-            ShardSpec::new(new_shard_map, self.stripe_size).expect("invalid shard spec");
+        let shard_spec = ShardSpec::new(new_shard_map, stripe_size).expect("invalid shard spec");
 
         {
             let _in_runtime = self.runtime.enter();
diff --git a/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/worker_process/worker_interface.rs b/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/worker_process/worker_interface.rs
index c9c985c1b7..2d789a7e85 100644
--- a/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/worker_process/worker_interface.rs
+++ b/pgxn/neon/communicator/src/worker_process/worker_interface.rs
@@ -141,9 +141,11 @@ pub extern "C" fn communicator_worker_config_reload(
     file_cache_size: u64,
     shard_map: *mut *mut c_char,
     nshards: u32,
+    stripe_size: u32,
 ) {
     proc_handle.cache.resize_file_cache(file_cache_size as u32);
 
     let shard_map = shard_map_to_hash(nshards, shard_map);
-    proc_handle.update_shard_map(shard_map);
+    let stripe_size = (nshards > 1).then_some(ShardStripeSize(stripe_size));
+    proc_handle.update_shard_map(shard_map, stripe_size);
 }
diff --git a/pgxn/neon/communicator_process.c b/pgxn/neon/communicator_process.c
index 36bd548f42..9f99087e53 100644
--- a/pgxn/neon/communicator_process.c
+++ b/pgxn/neon/communicator_process.c
@@ -224,7 +224,8 @@ communicator_new_bgworker_main(Datum main_arg)
 			communicator_worker_config_reload(proc_handle,
 											  file_cache_size,
 											  connstrings,
-											  shard_map.num_shards);
+											  shard_map.num_shards,
+											  neon_stripe_size);
 			pfree(connstrings);
 		}