diff --git a/bitnami/postgresql/17/debian-12/Dockerfile b/bitnami/postgresql/17/debian-12/Dockerfile
index 45ed7710cd61..be0d463edfde 100644
--- a/bitnami/postgresql/17/debian-12/Dockerfile
+++ b/bitnami/postgresql/17/debian-12/Dockerfile
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ ARG WITH_ALL_LOCALES="no"
 
 LABEL com.vmware.cp.artifact.flavor="sha256:c50c90cfd9d12b445b011e6ad529f1ad3daea45c26d20b00732fae3cd71f6a83" \
       org.opencontainers.image.base.name="docker.io/bitnami/minideb:bookworm" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.created="2025-03-23T22:28:52Z" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.created="2025-04-05T20:21:29Z" \
       org.opencontainers.image.description="Application packaged by Broadcom, Inc." \
       org.opencontainers.image.documentation="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/postgresql/README.md" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="17.4.0-debian-12-r11" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="17.4.0-debian-12-r12" \
       org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/postgresql" \
       org.opencontainers.image.title="postgresql" \
       org.opencontainers.image.vendor="Broadcom, Inc." \
diff --git a/bitnami/postgresql/17/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libvalidations.sh b/bitnami/postgresql/17/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libvalidations.sh
index b4084bbe976b..6b392b1d1e5c 100644
--- a/bitnami/postgresql/17/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libvalidations.sh
+++ b/bitnami/postgresql/17/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libvalidations.sh
@@ -277,22 +277,12 @@ validate_string() {
                 return 1
                 ;;
             *)
-                break
+                string="$1"
                 ;;
         esac
         shift
     done
 
-    if [ "$#" -gt 1 ]; then
-        stderr_print "too many arguments provided"
-        return 2
-    elif [ "$#" -eq 0 ]; then
-        stderr_print "missing string"
-        return 1
-    else
-        string=$1
-    fi
-
     if [[ "$min_length" -ge 0 ]] && [[ "${#string}" -lt "$min_length" ]]; then
         echo "string length is less than $min_length"
         return 1