diff --git a/src/applications/search/fulltextstorage/PhabricatorElasticFulltextStorageEngine.php b/src/applications/search/fulltextstorage/PhabricatorElasticFulltextStorageEngine.php
--- a/src/applications/search/fulltextstorage/PhabricatorElasticFulltextStorageEngine.php
+++ b/src/applications/search/fulltextstorage/PhabricatorElasticFulltextStorageEngine.php
@@ -105,42 +105,6 @@
     $this->executeRequest($host, "/{$type}/{$phid}/", $spec, 'PUT');
   }
 
-  public function reconstructDocument($phid) {
-    $type = phid_get_type($phid);
-    $host = $this->getHostForRead();
-    $response = $this->executeRequest($host, "/{$type}/{$phid}", array());
-
-    if (empty($response['exists'])) {
-      return null;
-    }
-
-    $hit = $response['_source'];
-
-    $doc = new PhabricatorSearchAbstractDocument();
-    $doc->setPHID($phid);
-    $doc->setDocumentType($response['_type']);
-    $doc->setDocumentTitle($hit['title']);
-    $doc->setDocumentCreated($hit['dateCreated']);
-    $doc->setDocumentModified($hit[$this->getTimestampField()]);
-
-    foreach ($hit['field'] as $fdef) {
-      $field_type = $fdef['type'];
-      $doc->addField($field_type, $hit[$field_type], $fdef['aux']);
-    }
-
-    foreach ($hit['relationship'] as $rtype => $rships) {
-      foreach ($rships as $rship) {
-        $doc->addRelationship(
-          $rtype,
-          $rship['phid'],
-          $rship['phidType'],
-          $rship['when']);
-      }
-    }
-
-    return $doc;
-  }
-
   private function buildSpec(PhabricatorSavedQuery $query) {
     $q = new PhabricatorElasticsearchQueryBuilder('bool');
     $query_string = $query->getParameter('query');
diff --git a/src/applications/search/fulltextstorage/PhabricatorFulltextStorageEngine.php b/src/applications/search/fulltextstorage/PhabricatorFulltextStorageEngine.php
--- a/src/applications/search/fulltextstorage/PhabricatorFulltextStorageEngine.php
+++ b/src/applications/search/fulltextstorage/PhabricatorFulltextStorageEngine.php
@@ -53,15 +53,6 @@
   abstract public function reindexAbstractDocument(
     PhabricatorSearchAbstractDocument $document);
 
-  /**
-   * Reconstruct the document for a given PHID. This is used for debugging
-   * and does not need to be perfect if it is unreasonable to implement it.
-   *
-   * @param  phid Document PHID to reconstruct.
-   * @return PhabricatorSearchAbstractDocument Abstract document.
-   */
-  abstract public function reconstructDocument($phid);
-
   /**
    * Execute a search query.
    *
diff --git a/src/applications/search/fulltextstorage/PhabricatorMySQLFulltextStorageEngine.php b/src/applications/search/fulltextstorage/PhabricatorMySQLFulltextStorageEngine.php
--- a/src/applications/search/fulltextstorage/PhabricatorMySQLFulltextStorageEngine.php
+++ b/src/applications/search/fulltextstorage/PhabricatorMySQLFulltextStorageEngine.php
@@ -91,73 +91,6 @@
 
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Rebuild the PhabricatorSearchAbstractDocument that was used to index
-   * an object out of the index itself. This is primarily useful for debugging,
-   * as it allows you to inspect the search index representation of a
-   * document.
-   *
-   * @param  phid PHID of a document which exists in the search index.
-   * @return null|PhabricatorSearchAbstractDocument Abstract document object
-   *           which corresponds to the original abstract document used to
-   *           build the document index.
-   */
-  public function reconstructDocument($phid) {
-    $dao_doc = new PhabricatorSearchDocument();
-    $dao_field = new PhabricatorSearchDocumentField();
-    $dao_relationship = new PhabricatorSearchDocumentRelationship();
-
-    $t_doc = $dao_doc->getTableName();
-    $t_field = $dao_field->getTableName();
-    $t_relationship = $dao_relationship->getTableName();
-
-    $doc = queryfx_one(
-      $dao_doc->establishConnection('r'),
-      'SELECT * FROM %T WHERE phid = %s',
-      $t_doc,
-      $phid);
-
-    if (!$doc) {
-      return null;
-    }
-
-    $fields = queryfx_all(
-      $dao_field->establishConnection('r'),
-      'SELECT * FROM %T WHERE phid = %s',
-      $t_field,
-      $phid);
-
-    $relationships = queryfx_all(
-      $dao_relationship->establishConnection('r'),
-      'SELECT * FROM %T WHERE phid = %s',
-      $t_relationship,
-      $phid);
-
-    $adoc = id(new PhabricatorSearchAbstractDocument())
-      ->setPHID($phid)
-      ->setDocumentType($doc['documentType'])
-      ->setDocumentTitle($doc['documentTitle'])
-      ->setDocumentCreated($doc['documentCreated'])
-      ->setDocumentModified($doc['documentModified']);
-
-    foreach ($fields as $field) {
-      $adoc->addField(
-        $field['field'],
-        $field['corpus'],
-        $field['auxPHID']);
-    }
-
-    foreach ($relationships as $relationship) {
-      $adoc->addRelationship(
-        $relationship['relation'],
-        $relationship['relatedPHID'],
-        $relationship['relatedType'],
-        $relationship['relatedTime']);
-    }
-
-    return $adoc;
-  }
-
   public function executeSearch(PhabricatorSavedQuery $query) {
     $table = new PhabricatorSearchDocument();
     $document_table = $table->getTableName();