Go back to storing JSON in TEXT

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/storage/engines/sqlite3.py b/synapse/storage/engines/sqlite3.py

index 389df35eb5..dd0d8e0e0f 100644
--- a/synapse/storage/engines/sqlite3.py
+++ b/synapse/storage/engines/sqlite3.py
@@ -37,8 +37,3 @@ class Sqlite3Engine(object):
 
     def is_deadlock(self, error):
         return False
-
-    def load_unicode(self, v):
-        if isinstance(v, types.UnicodeType):
-            return v
-        return bytes(v).decode("UTF8")