diff --git a/backend.php b/backend.php
index cd05898f3..169ce297a 100644
--- a/backend.php
+++ b/backend.php
@@ -41,18 +41,6 @@
 		pg_query("set client_encoding = 'utf-8'");
 	}
 
-/*
-	$result = db_query($link, "SELECT schema_version FROM ttrss_version");
-
-	$schema_version = db_fetch_result($result, 0, "schema_version");
-
-	if ($schema_version != SCHEMA_VERSION) {
-		print "Error: database schema is invalid
-			(got version $schema_version; expected ".SCHEMA_VERSION.")";
-		return;
-	}
-*/
-
 	$fetch = $_GET["fetch"];
 
 	/* FIXME this needs reworking */