diff --git a/handler/ha_innodb.cc b/handler/ha_innodb.cc
index 02194f0ee1a..ec754a06024 100644
--- a/handler/ha_innodb.cc
+++ b/handler/ha_innodb.cc
@@ -8297,7 +8297,6 @@ ha_innobase::add_index(
 	ulint		num_created;
 	ibool		dict_locked = FALSE;
 	ulint		new_primary;
-	ibool		new_unique  = FALSE;
 	ulint		error;
 
 	DBUG_ENTER("ha_innobase::add_index");
@@ -8410,11 +8409,6 @@ err_exit:
 			goto error_handling;
 		}
 
-		if (index_defs[i].ind_type & DICT_UNIQUE) {
-
-			new_unique = TRUE;
-		}
-
 		num_created++;
 	}