diff --git a/src/backend/distributed/operations/shard_split.c b/src/backend/distributed/operations/shard_split.c
index 22368d957..862454817 100644
--- a/src/backend/distributed/operations/shard_split.c
+++ b/src/backend/distributed/operations/shard_split.c
@@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ DropShardList(List *shardIntervalList)
 		{
 			ListCell *commandCell = NULL;
 
-			/* send the commands one by one */
+			/* send the commands one by one (calls citus_internal_delete_shard_metadata internally) */
 			List *shardMetadataDeleteCommandList = ShardDeleteCommandList(shardInterval);
 			foreach(commandCell, shardMetadataDeleteCommandList)
 			{
diff --git a/src/backend/distributed/operations/worker_split_copy_udf.c b/src/backend/distributed/operations/worker_split_copy_udf.c
index 7f3bb4b31..524bdf7d5 100644
--- a/src/backend/distributed/operations/worker_split_copy_udf.c
+++ b/src/backend/distributed/operations/worker_split_copy_udf.c
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 #include "distributed/listutils.h"
 #include "distributed/multi_executor.h"
 #include "distributed/worker_shard_copy.h"
-#include "distributed/worker_split_copy.h"
 #include "distributed/intermediate_results.h"
 #include "distributed/citus_ruleutils.h"