diff --git a/src/meta/src/barrier/recovery.rs b/src/meta/src/barrier/recovery.rs
index d6fae40f44d2f..e4b93a286a3f8 100644
--- a/src/meta/src/barrier/recovery.rs
+++ b/src/meta/src/barrier/recovery.rs
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ use risingwave_common::catalog::TableId;
 use risingwave_hummock_sdk::compaction_group::StateTableId;
 use risingwave_meta_model_v2::StreamingParallelism;
 use risingwave_pb::common::ActorInfo;
+use risingwave_pb::meta::table_fragments::State;
 use risingwave_pb::meta::PausedReason;
 use risingwave_pb::stream_plan::barrier::BarrierKind;
 use risingwave_pb::stream_plan::barrier_mutation::Mutation;
@@ -607,7 +608,7 @@ impl GlobalBarrierManagerContext {
         let table_parallelisms: HashMap<_, _> = {
             let streaming_parallelisms = mgr
                 .catalog_controller
-                .get_all_streaming_parallelisms()
+                .get_all_created_streaming_parallelisms()
                 .await?;
 
             streaming_parallelisms
@@ -751,6 +752,7 @@ impl GlobalBarrierManagerContext {
             guard
                 .table_fragments()
                 .iter()
+                .filter(|&(_, table)| matches!(table.state(), State::Created))
                 .map(|(table_id, table)| {
                     let target_parallelism =
                         derive_target_parallelism_for_custom(current_parallelism, table);
diff --git a/src/meta/src/controller/catalog.rs b/src/meta/src/controller/catalog.rs
index 8d34e4076c1e9..f76f38e84dde7 100644
--- a/src/meta/src/controller/catalog.rs
+++ b/src/meta/src/controller/catalog.rs
@@ -2134,12 +2134,13 @@ impl CatalogController {
             .collect())
     }
 
-    pub async fn get_all_streaming_parallelisms(
+    pub async fn get_all_created_streaming_parallelisms(
         &self,
     ) -> MetaResult<HashMap<ObjectId, StreamingParallelism>> {
         let inner = self.inner.read().await;
 
         let job_parallelisms = StreamingJob::find()
+            .filter(streaming_job::Column::JobStatus.eq(JobStatus::Created))
             .select_only()
             .columns([
                 streaming_job::Column::JobId,
diff --git a/src/meta/src/stream/scale.rs b/src/meta/src/stream/scale.rs
index 6dd0d1e3b72cb..e598aefb291d3 100644
--- a/src/meta/src/stream/scale.rs
+++ b/src/meta/src/stream/scale.rs
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ use risingwave_pb::meta::get_reschedule_plan_request::{Policy, StableResizePolic
 use risingwave_pb::meta::subscribe_response::{Info, Operation};
 use risingwave_pb::meta::table_fragments::actor_status::ActorState;
 use risingwave_pb::meta::table_fragments::fragment::FragmentDistributionType;
-use risingwave_pb::meta::table_fragments::{self, ActorStatus, Fragment};
+use risingwave_pb::meta::table_fragments::{self, ActorStatus, Fragment, State};
 use risingwave_pb::meta::FragmentParallelUnitMappings;
 use risingwave_pb::stream_plan::stream_node::NodeBody;
 use risingwave_pb::stream_plan::{DispatcherType, FragmentTypeFlag, StreamActor, StreamNode};
@@ -2528,6 +2528,7 @@ impl GlobalStreamManager {
                     guard
                         .table_fragments()
                         .iter()
+                        .filter(|&(_, table)| matches!(table.state(), State::Created))
                         .map(|(table_id, table)| (table_id.table_id, table.assigned_parallelism))
                         .collect()
                 };
@@ -2574,7 +2575,7 @@ impl GlobalStreamManager {
                 let table_parallelisms: HashMap<_, _> = {
                     let streaming_parallelisms = mgr
                         .catalog_controller
-                        .get_all_streaming_parallelisms()
+                        .get_all_created_streaming_parallelisms()
                         .await?;
 
                     streaming_parallelisms