diff --git a/src/meta/src/stream/stream_manager.rs b/src/meta/src/stream/stream_manager.rs
index 220f69bc0a58..612fc754da24 100644
--- a/src/meta/src/stream/stream_manager.rs
+++ b/src/meta/src/stream/stream_manager.rs
@@ -427,6 +427,8 @@ impl GlobalStreamManager {
             "built actors finished"
         );
 
+        let need_pause = replace_table_job_info.is_some();
+
         if let Some((streaming_job, context, table_fragments)) = replace_table_job_info {
             self.build_actors(
                 &table_fragments,
@@ -516,7 +518,15 @@ impl GlobalStreamManager {
             }
         };
         let result: MetaResult<NotificationVersion> = try {
-            self.barrier_scheduler.run_command(command).await?;
+            if need_pause {
+                // Special handling is required when creating sink into table, we need to pause the stream to avoid data loss.
+                self.barrier_scheduler
+                    .run_config_change_command_with_pause(command)
+                    .await?;
+            } else {
+                self.barrier_scheduler.run_command(command).await?;
+            }
+
             tracing::debug!(?streaming_job, "first barrier collected for stream job");
             let result = self
                 .metadata_manager
diff --git a/src/stream/src/executor/mod.rs b/src/stream/src/executor/mod.rs
index ff32af10d119..5ade4c8243e0 100644
--- a/src/stream/src/executor/mod.rs
+++ b/src/stream/src/executor/mod.rs
@@ -462,8 +462,11 @@ impl Barrier {
             Some(
                   Mutation::Update { .. } // new actors for scaling
                 | Mutation::Add(AddMutation { pause: true, .. }) // new streaming job, or recovery
-                | Mutation::AddAndUpdate(AddMutation { pause: true, .. }, _) // new actors for replacing table
             ) => true,
+            Some(Mutation::AddAndUpdate(AddMutation { pause, ..}, _)) => {
+                assert!(pause);
+                true
+            },
             _ => false,
         }
     }