diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/backends/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/backends/tests.py
index b12239f0c2..06ab09765f 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/backends/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/backends/tests.py
@@ -17,21 +17,6 @@ class Callproc(unittest.TestCase):
             return True
         else:
             return True
-            
-class LongString(unittest.TestCase):
-
-    def test_long_string(self):
-        # If the backend is Oracle, test that we can save a text longer
-        # than 4000 chars and read it properly
-        if settings.DATABASE_ENGINE == 'oracle':
-            c = connection.cursor()
-            c.execute('CREATE TABLE ltext ("TEXT" NCLOB)')
-            long_str = ''.join([unicode(x) for x in xrange(4000)])
-            c.execute('INSERT INTO ltext VALUES (%s)',[long_str])
-            c.execute('SELECT text FROM ltext')
-            row = c.fetchone()
-            c.execute('DROP TABLE ltext')
-            self.assertEquals(long_str, row[0].read())
 
 class LongString(unittest.TestCase):