diff --git a/lib/tablelib.php b/lib/tablelib.php
index 9c22c9cd7d3..e991bea1993 100644
--- a/lib/tablelib.php
+++ b/lib/tablelib.php
@@ -1270,17 +1270,6 @@ class table_sql extends flexible_table {
         $this->set_attribute('class', 'generaltable generalbox');
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Backwards-compatible constructor, so that legacy code subclassing
-     * table_sql does not break.
-     * @deprecated since Moodle 2.0. Will be removed in Moodle 2.1.
-     */
-    function table_sql($uniqueid) {
-        debugging('Please update your code to user PHP5-style parent::__construct(...), ' .
-                'not parent::table_sql(...).');
-        $this->__construct($uniqueid);
-    }
-
     /**
      * Take the data returned from the db_query and go through all the rows
      * processing each col using either col_{columnname} method or other_cols