diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/ReadCommand.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/ReadCommand.java
index eb3cf15a6b..35a6c5a02e 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/ReadCommand.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/ReadCommand.java
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ class ReadCommandSerializer implements ICompactSerializer<ReadCommand>
     private static final Map<Byte, ReadCommandSerializer> CMD_SERIALIZER_MAP = new HashMap<Byte, ReadCommandSerializer>(); 
     static 
     {
-        CMD_SERIALIZER_MAP.put(ReadCommand.CMD_TYPE_GET_ROW, new RowReadCommandSerializer());
         CMD_SERIALIZER_MAP.put(ReadCommand.CMD_TYPE_GET_COLUMN, new ColumnReadCommandSerializer());
         CMD_SERIALIZER_MAP.put(ReadCommand.CMD_TYPE_GET_SLICE_BY_NAMES, new SliceByNamesReadCommandSerializer());
         CMD_SERIALIZER_MAP.put(ReadCommand.CMD_TYPE_GET_COLUMNS_SINCE, new ColumnsSinceReadCommandSerializer());
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/RowReadCommand.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/RowReadCommand.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 2b06a67b40..0000000000
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/RowReadCommand.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-package org.apache.cassandra.db;
-
-import java.io.DataInputStream;
-import java.io.DataOutputStream;
-import java.io.IOException;
-
-public class RowReadCommand extends ReadCommand
-{
-    public RowReadCommand(String table, String key)
-    {
-        super(table, key, CMD_TYPE_GET_ROW);
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public String getColumnFamilyName()
-    {
-        return null;
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public ReadCommand copy()
-    {
-        ReadCommand readCommand= new RowReadCommand(table, key);
-        readCommand.setDigestQuery(isDigestQuery());
-        return readCommand;
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public Row getRow(Table table) throws IOException    
-    {
-        return table.get(key);
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public String toString()
-    {
-        return "RowReadCommand(" +
-               "table='" + table + '\'' +
-               ", key='" + key + '\'' +
-               ')';
-    }
-
-}
-
-class RowReadCommandSerializer extends ReadCommandSerializer
-{
-    @Override
-    public void serialize(ReadCommand rm, DataOutputStream dos) throws IOException
-    { 
-        RowReadCommand realRM = (RowReadCommand)rm;
-        dos.writeBoolean(realRM.isDigestQuery());
-        dos.writeUTF(realRM.table);
-        dos.writeUTF(realRM.key);
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public ReadCommand deserialize(DataInputStream dis) throws IOException
-    {
-        boolean isDigest = dis.readBoolean();
-        String table = dis.readUTF();
-        String key = dis.readUTF();
-        RowReadCommand rm = new RowReadCommand(table, key);
-        rm.setDigestQuery(isDigest);
-        return rm;
-    }
-}
diff --git a/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/db/ReadMessageTest.java b/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/db/ReadMessageTest.java
index aa7740fdf4..3803352838 100644
--- a/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/db/ReadMessageTest.java
+++ b/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/db/ReadMessageTest.java
@@ -49,10 +49,6 @@ public class ReadMessageTest
         rm2 = serializeAndDeserializeReadMessage(rm);
         assert rm2.toString().equals(rm.toString());
 
-        rm = new RowReadCommand("Table1", "row1");
-        rm2 = serializeAndDeserializeReadMessage(rm);
-        assert rm2.toString().equals(rm.toString());
-
         rm = new ColumnsSinceReadCommand("Table1", "row1", "foo", 1);
         rm2 = serializeAndDeserializeReadMessage(rm);
         assert rm2.toString().equals(rm.toString());