diff --git a/data-discovery/src/main/java/search/DbConnArgs.java b/data-discovery/src/main/java/search/DbConnArgs.java
index 2063db26af89fc2bceda9fd89504311a146af0f3..df268896849634edbfd21be9d83c3f67970ad116 100644
--- a/data-discovery/src/main/java/search/DbConnArgs.java
+++ b/data-discovery/src/main/java/search/DbConnArgs.java
@@ -2,18 +2,16 @@
 class DbConnArgs
 {
    public String uri;
-   public String schema;
    public String user_name;
    public String password;
 
    public String uri() {return uri;}
-   public String schema() {return schema;}
    public String userName() {return user_name;}
    public String password() {return password;}
 
    public String toString()
    {
-      return uri + "  schema[" + schema +  "] " + user_name;
+      return uri +  " " + user_name;
    }
 }
 
diff --git a/data-discovery/src/main/java/webapi/SearchSettings.java b/data-discovery/src/main/java/webapi/SearchSettings.java
index cff18dc2786fa56fbb6a48d11525d3201f0285a9..ebc40528a9b276e9737fee931bda006ecc2d322d 100644
--- a/data-discovery/src/main/java/webapi/SearchSettings.java
+++ b/data-discovery/src/main/java/webapi/SearchSettings.java
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ class SearchSettings
    {
       DbConnArgs dbConnArgs = new DbConnArgs();
       dbConnArgs.uri       = properties.getProperty("db_uri","jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/vialactea").strip();
-      dbConnArgs.schema    = properties.getProperty("db_schema","ivoa").strip();
       dbConnArgs.user_name = properties.getProperty("db_user_name","").strip();
       dbConnArgs.password  = properties.getProperty("db_password","").strip();
 
diff --git a/data-discovery/src/main/resources/search.properties b/data-discovery/src/main/resources/search.properties
index 6828d84522995a0fe3dfc71eda6184390c1ce2b6..5452506862e9e1595b07a5d06695fefed7e43038 100644
--- a/data-discovery/src/main/resources/search.properties
+++ b/data-discovery/src/main/resources/search.properties
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 
 # database with 'obscore' table
 # db_uri=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/vialactea
-# db_schema=ivoa
 db_user_name=
 db_password=
 
diff --git a/docker/start-siav2.sh b/docker/start-siav2.sh
index fcf8e4922d8232176bcf8ed3d42cbcada5620bb2..8d8da23fda4b01b3c62e1d46e69efc486f597ec3 100755
--- a/docker/start-siav2.sh
+++ b/docker/start-siav2.sh
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ echo "<Context docBase=\"$WEBAPP_DIR\"/>" > $CATALINA_BASE/conf/Catalina/localho
 # configure DB with ObsTAP
 {
    echo "db_uri=$DB_URI"
-   echo "db_schema=$DB_SCHEMA"
    echo "db_user_name=$DB_USERNAME"
    echo "db_password=$DB_PASSWORD"
 } > $WEBAPP_DIR/WEB-INF/classes/search.properties