diff --git a/src/backend/distributed/Makefile b/src/backend/distributed/Makefile
index 9fa8fcf5f..8db6ed6ce 100644
--- a/src/backend/distributed/Makefile
+++ b/src/backend/distributed/Makefile
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ EXTVERSIONS = 5.0 5.0-1 5.0-2  \
 DATA = $(patsubst $(citus_abs_srcdir)/%.sql,%.sql,$(wildcard $(citus_abs_srcdir)/$(EXTENSION)--*--*.sql))
 # Generated files for each version
 DATA_built = $(foreach v,$(EXTVERSIONS),$(EXTENSION)--$(v).sql)
-SCRIPTS = ../../bin/scripts/copy_to_distributed_table
 
 # directories with source files
 SUBDIRS = . commands executor master planner relay test transaction utils worker
diff --git a/src/bin/scripts/copy_to_distributed_table b/src/bin/scripts/copy_to_distributed_table
deleted file mode 100755
index 50994505d..000000000
--- a/src/bin/scripts/copy_to_distributed_table
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,171 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-echo "WARNING: copy_to_distributed_table is now deprecated." >&2
-echo "HINT: You can use \\copy on distributed tables, which is a lot faster." >&2
-
-# make bash behave
-set -euo pipefail
-IFS=$'\n\t'
-
-# constants
-stdout=1
-stderr=2
-success=0
-badusage=64
-noinput=66
-
-# default values for certain options
-format='text'
-schema='public'
-
-# we'll append to this string to build options list
-options='OIDS false, FREEZE false'
-
-# outputs usage message on specified device before exiting with provided status
-usage() {
-	cat << 'E_O_USAGE' >&"$1"
-usage: copy_to_distributed_table [-BCTHh] [-c encoding] [-d delimiter]
-	[-e escape] [-n null] [-q quote] [-s schema] filename tablename
-
-  B : use binary format for input
-  C : use CSV format for input
-  T : use text format for input
-  H : specifies file contains header line to be ignored
-  h : print this help message
-
-  c : specifies file is encoded using `encoding`
-      Default: the current client encoding
-  d : specifies the character used to separate columns
-      Default: a tab character in text format, a comma in CSV format
-  e : specifies the character used to escape quotes
-      Default: the same as the `quote` value (quotes within data are doubled)
-  n : specifies the string that represents a null value
-      Default: \N in text format, an unquoted empty string in CSV format
-  q : specifies the quoting character to be used when a data value is quoted
-      Default: double-quote
-  s : specifies the schema in which the target table resides
-      Default: 'public'
-
-copy_to_distributed_table outputs the total number of rows successfully copied
-to the distributed table, counted from the beginning of the input file.
-E_O_USAGE
-
-	exit $2;
-}
-
-# process flags
-while getopts ':BCc:d:e:Hhn:q:s:T' o; do
-	case "${o}" in
-		B)
-			format='binary'
-			;;
-		C)
-			format='csv'
-			;;
-		c)
-			encoding=`echo ${OPTARG} | sed s/\'/\'\'/g`
-			options="${options}, ENCODING '${encoding}'"
-			;;
-		d)
-			delimiter=`echo ${OPTARG} | sed s/\'/\'\'/g`
-			options="${options}, DELIMITER '${delimiter}'"
-			;;
-		e)
-			escape=`echo ${OPTARG} | sed s/\'/\'\'/g`
-			options="${options}, ESCAPE '${escape}'"
-			;;
-		H)
-			options="${options}, HEADER true"
-			;;
-		h)
-			usage $stdout $success
-			;;
-		n)
-			null=`echo ${OPTARG} | sed s/\'/\'\'/g`
-			options="${options}, NULL '${null}'"
-			;;
-		q)
-			quote=`echo ${OPTARG} | sed s/\'/\'\'/g`
-			options="${options}, QUOTE '${quote}'"
-			;;
-		s)
-			# we'll escape schema in psql itself
-			schema=${OPTARG}
-			;;
-		T)
-			format='text'
-			;;
-		*)
-			echo "$0: illegal option -- ${OPTARG}" >&2
-			usage $stderr $badusage
-			;;
-	esac
-done
-shift $((OPTIND-1))
-
-if [ "$#" -ne 2 ]; then
-	usage $stderr $badusage
-fi
-
-# append format to options and extract file/table names
-options="${options}, FORMAT ${format}"
-filename=$1
-tablename=$2
-
-# validate inputs
-if [ -d "${filename}" ]; then
-	echo "$0: ${filename}: Is a directory" >&2
-	exit $noinput
-elif [ ! -e "${filename}" ]; then
-	echo "$0: ${filename}: No such file" >&2
-	exit $noinput
-elif [ ! -r "${filename}" ]; then
-	echo "$0: ${filename}: Permission denied" >&2
-	exit $noinput
-fi
-
-# invoke psql, ignoring .psqlrc and passing the following heredoc
-psql -X -vtable="${tablename}" -vfile="${filename}" \
-		-vschema="${schema}" -voptions="${options}" << 'E_O_SQL'
--- only print values, left-align them, and don't rollback or stop on error
-\set QUIET on
-\set ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK off
-\pset format unaligned
-\pset tuples_only on
-\set ON_ERROR_STOP on
-
--- squelch all output until COPY completes
-\o /dev/null
-
--- Use a session-bound counter to keep track of the number of rows inserted: we
--- can't roll back so we need to tell the user how many rows were inserted. Due
--- to the trigger implementation, the COPY will report zero rows, so we count
--- them manually for a better experience.
-CREATE TEMPORARY SEQUENCE rows_inserted MINVALUE 0 CACHE 100000;
-
--- initialize counter to zero
-SELECT nextval('rows_inserted');
-
--- get qualified table name
-SELECT format('%I.%I', :'schema', :'table') AS target
-\gset
-
--- create insert proxy and save name; pass in sequence
-SELECT create_insert_proxy_for_table(:'target', 'rows_inserted') AS proxy
-\gset
-
--- don't stop if copy errors out: continue to print file name and row count
-\set ON_ERROR_STOP off
-
--- \copy doesn't allow variable substitution, so do it ourselves...
-SELECT format('\copy pg_temp.%I from %L with (%s)',
-			  :'proxy', :'file', :'options') AS copy_cmd
-\gset
-
--- ... then execute the result
-:copy_cmd
-
--- reconnect STDOUT to display row count
-\o
-
-SELECT currval('rows_inserted');
-E_O_SQL