diff --git a/include/Base_Session.h b/include/Base_Session.h
index 52474d8dc..97fb94bba 100644
--- a/include/Base_Session.h
+++ b/include/Base_Session.h
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ class Base_Session {
 	bool schema_locked;
 	bool transaction_persistent;
 	bool session_fast_forward;
-	bool started_sending_data_to_client; // this status variable tracks if some result set was sent to the client, or if proxysql is still buffering everything
+	//bool started_sending_data_to_client; // this status variable tracks if some result set was sent to the client, or if proxysql is still buffering everything
 	bool use_ssl;
 	MySQL_STMTs_meta *sess_STMTs_meta;
 	StmtLongDataHandler *SLDH;
diff --git a/include/MySQL_Session.h b/include/MySQL_Session.h
index 541ce2105..44cb5c8ae 100644
--- a/include/MySQL_Session.h
+++ b/include/MySQL_Session.h
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ class MySQL_Session: public Base_Session<MySQL_Session, MySQL_Data_Stream, MySQL
 	bool schema_locked;
 	bool transaction_persistent;
 	bool session_fast_forward;
-	bool started_sending_data_to_client; // this status variable tracks if some result set was sent to the client, or if proxysql is still buffering everything
+	//bool started_sending_data_to_client; // this status variable tracks if some result set was sent to the client, or if proxysql is still buffering everything
 	bool use_ssl;
 #endif // 0
 	/**
diff --git a/include/PgSQL_Session.h b/include/PgSQL_Session.h
index 6ffe982f6..456979b0f 100644
--- a/include/PgSQL_Session.h
+++ b/include/PgSQL_Session.h
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ public:
 	bool schema_locked;
 	bool transaction_persistent;
 	bool session_fast_forward;
-	bool started_sending_data_to_client; // this status variable tracks if some result set was sent to the client, or if proxysql is still buffering everything
+	//bool started_sending_data_to_client; // this status variable tracks if some result set was sent to the client, or if proxysql is still buffering everything
 	bool use_ssl;
 #endif // 0
 	/**
diff --git a/lib/MySQL_Session.cpp b/lib/MySQL_Session.cpp
index 490746306..449baae58 100644
--- a/lib/MySQL_Session.cpp
+++ b/lib/MySQL_Session.cpp
@@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ MySQL_Session::MySQL_Session() {
 	user_attributes=NULL;
 	schema_locked=false;
 	session_fast_forward=false;
-	started_sending_data_to_client=false;
+	//started_sending_data_to_client=false;
 	handler_function=NULL;
 	client_myds=NULL;
 	to_process=0;
@@ -7476,7 +7476,7 @@ void MySQL_Session::RequestEnd(MySQL_Data_Stream *myds) {
 			CurrentQuery.end();
 		}
 	}
-	started_sending_data_to_client=false;
+	//started_sending_data_to_client=false;
 	previous_hostgroup = current_hostgroup;
 }
 
diff --git a/lib/PgSQL_Session.cpp b/lib/PgSQL_Session.cpp
index c5a24f25c..c0ffc0442 100644
--- a/lib/PgSQL_Session.cpp
+++ b/lib/PgSQL_Session.cpp
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ PgSQL_Session::PgSQL_Session() {
 	user_attributes = NULL;
 	schema_locked = false;
 	session_fast_forward = false;
-	started_sending_data_to_client = false;
+	//started_sending_data_to_client = false;
 	handler_function = NULL;
 	client_myds = NULL;
 	to_process = 0;
@@ -6519,7 +6519,7 @@ void PgSQL_Session::RequestEnd(PgSQL_Data_Stream* myds) {
 			CurrentQuery.end();
 		}
 	}
-	started_sending_data_to_client = false;
+	//started_sending_data_to_client = false;
 	previous_hostgroup = current_hostgroup;
 }