diff --git a/src/backend/distributed/worker/worker_drop_protocol.c b/src/backend/distributed/worker/worker_drop_protocol.c
index 0f425583b..9d98bade1 100644
--- a/src/backend/distributed/worker/worker_drop_protocol.c
+++ b/src/backend/distributed/worker/worker_drop_protocol.c
@@ -151,8 +151,7 @@ WorkerDropDistributedTable(Oid relationId)
 		 *
 		 * We drop the table with cascade since other tables may be referring to it.
 		 */
-		performDeletion(&distributedTableObject, DROP_CASCADE,
-						PERFORM_DELETION_INTERNAL);
+		performDeletion(&distributedTableObject, DROP_CASCADE, 0);
 	}
 
 	/* iterate over shardList to delete the corresponding rows */