diff --git a/ansible-runner/context/app/project/roles/mirror_appliance/tasks/migrate.yaml b/ansible-runner/context/app/project/roles/mirror_appliance/tasks/migrate.yaml
index 23ace4e..6961d77 100644
--- a/ansible-runner/context/app/project/roles/mirror_appliance/tasks/migrate.yaml
+++ b/ansible-runner/context/app/project/roles/mirror_appliance/tasks/migrate.yaml
@@ -145,9 +145,7 @@
     mode: '0755'
 
 - name: Convert PostgreSQL data-only dump to SQLite-compatible SQL file
-  script: pg_to_sqlite.sh "{{ expanded_quay_root }}/quay-postgres-backup/pg_data_dump.sql" "{{ expanded_quay_root }}/quay-postgres-backup/transformed_pgdata.sql"
-  args:
-    executable: /bin/bash
+  command: /bin/bash "{{ expanded_quay_root }}/quay-postgres-backup/pg_to_sqlite.sh" "{{ expanded_quay_root }}/quay-postgres-backup/pg_data_dump.sql" "{{ expanded_quay_root }}/quay-postgres-backup/transformed_pgdata.sql"
 
 - name: Concatenate sqlite schema .sql and transformed postgres data into single merged_sqlite.sql
   shell: cat "{{ expanded_quay_root }}/quay-postgres-backup/sqlite_schema_dump.sql" "{{ expanded_quay_root }}/quay-postgres-backup/transformed_pgdata.sql" > "{{ expanded_quay_root }}/quay-postgres-backup/merged_sqlite.sql"
diff --git a/ansible-runner/context/app/project/roles/mirror_appliance/templates/pg_to_sqlite.sh b/ansible-runner/context/app/project/roles/mirror_appliance/templates/pg_to_sqlite.sh
index 9258218..d6f01cc 100755
--- a/ansible-runner/context/app/project/roles/mirror_appliance/templates/pg_to_sqlite.sh
+++ b/ansible-runner/context/app/project/roles/mirror_appliance/templates/pg_to_sqlite.sh
@@ -25,13 +25,16 @@ pg_to_sqlite() {
     sql=$(echo "$sql" | sed -E '/^pg_dump:.*$/d')
 
     # Remove original PostgreSQL sequence set statements
-    sql=$(echo "$sql" | sed -E "s/SELECT pg_catalog\.setval\('public\..*?\', [0-9]+, (true|false)\);//g")
+    sql=$(echo "$sql" | sed -E "s/SELECT pg_catalog\.setval\('public\..*?', [0-9]+, (true|false)\);//g")
 
     # Remove the `public.` schema prefix from table names
     sql=$(echo "$sql" | sed "s/INSERT INTO public\./INSERT INTO /g")
 
-    # Remove blank lines
-    sql=$(echo "$sql" | sed '/^$/d')
+    # Remove empty lines
+    sql=$(echo "$sql" | sed "/^\s*$/d")
+
+    # Trim whitespace from the beginning and end
+    sql=$(echo "$sql" | sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//')
 
     # Write the output to the specified file
     echo "$sql" > "$output_file"