diff --git a/synapse/storage/data_stores/main/event_federation.py b/synapse/storage/data_stores/main/event_federation.py
index 88e6489576..32e76621a7 100644
--- a/synapse/storage/data_stores/main/event_federation.py
+++ b/synapse/storage/data_stores/main/event_federation.py
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
# limitations under the License.
import itertools
import logging
-import random
from six.moves import range
from six.moves.queue import Empty, PriorityQueue
@@ -148,35 +147,6 @@ class EventFederationWorkerStore(EventsWorkerStore, SignatureWorkerStore, SQLBas
retcol="event_id",
)
- @defer.inlineCallbacks
- def get_prev_events_and_hashes_for_room(self, room_id):
- """
- Gets a subset of the current forward extremities in the given room,
- along with their depths and hashes.
-
- Limits the result to 10 extremities, so that we can avoid creating
- events which refer to hundreds of prev_events.
-
- Args:
- room_id (str): room_id
-
- Returns:
- Deferred[list[(str, dict[str, str], int)]]
- for each event, a tuple of (event_id, hashes, depth)
- where *hashes* is a map from algorithm to hash.
- """
- res = yield self.get_latest_event_ids_and_hashes_in_room(room_id)
- if len(res) > 10:
- # Sort by reverse depth, so we point to the most recent.
- res.sort(key=lambda a: -a[2])
-
- # we use half of the limit for the actual most recent events, and
- # the other half to randomly point to some of the older events, to
- # make sure that we don't completely ignore the older events.
- res = res[0:5] + random.sample(res[5:], 5)
-
- return res
-
def get_prev_events_for_room(self, room_id: str):
"""
Gets a subset of the current forward extremities in the given room.
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