diff --git a/app/models/application_record.rb b/app/models/application_record.rb
index f7ff31df8..535bd19f6 100644
--- a/app/models/application_record.rb
+++ b/app/models/application_record.rb
@@ -418,13 +418,6 @@ class ApplicationRecord < ActiveRecord::Base
       def columns(*params)
         super.reject {|x| x.sql_type == "tsvector"}
       end
-
-      def test_connection
-        limit(1).select(:id)
-        return true
-      rescue PG::Error
-        return false
-      end
     end
   end