diff --git a/channeldb/graph.go b/channeldb/graph.go
index f34fe0b27..b97d7a746 100644
--- a/channeldb/graph.go
+++ b/channeldb/graph.go
@@ -3438,8 +3438,6 @@ type ChannelEdgePolicy struct {
 	// and ensure we're able to make upgrades to the network in a forwards
 	// compatible manner.
 	ExtraOpaqueData []byte
-
-	db kvdb.Backend
 }
 
 // Signature is a channel announcement signature, which is needed for proper
@@ -3823,11 +3821,6 @@ func (c *ChannelGraph) ChannelView() ([]EdgePoint, error) {
 	return edgePoints, nil
 }
 
-// NewChannelEdgePolicy returns a new blank ChannelEdgePolicy.
-func (c *ChannelGraph) NewChannelEdgePolicy() *ChannelEdgePolicy {
-	return &ChannelEdgePolicy{db: c.db}
-}
-
 // MarkEdgeZombie attempts to mark a channel identified by its channel ID as a
 // zombie. This method is used on an ad-hoc basis, when channels need to be
 // marked as zombies outside the normal pruning cycle.
@@ -4624,12 +4617,6 @@ func fetchChanEdgePolicies(edgeIndex kvdb.RBucket, edges kvdb.RBucket,
 		return nil, nil, err
 	}
 
-	// As we may have a single direction of the edge but not the other,
-	// only fill in the database pointers if the edge is found.
-	if edge1 != nil {
-		edge1.db = db
-	}
-
 	// Similarly, the second node is contained within the latter
 	// half of the edge information.
 	node2Pub := edgeInfo[33:66]
@@ -4638,10 +4625,6 @@ func fetchChanEdgePolicies(edgeIndex kvdb.RBucket, edges kvdb.RBucket,
 		return nil, nil, err
 	}
 
-	if edge2 != nil {
-		edge2.db = db
-	}
-
 	return edge1, edge2, nil
 }
 
diff --git a/channeldb/graph_test.go b/channeldb/graph_test.go
index a1e6fa223..fa409441b 100644
--- a/channeldb/graph_test.go
+++ b/channeldb/graph_test.go
@@ -671,7 +671,6 @@ func createChannelEdge(db kvdb.Backend, node1, node2 *LightningNode) (*ChannelEd
 		FeeProportionalMillionths: 3452352,
 		Node:                      secondNode,
 		ExtraOpaqueData:           []byte("new unknown feature2"),
-		db:                        db,
 	}
 	edge2 := &ChannelEdgePolicy{
 		SigBytes:                  testSig.Serialize(),
@@ -686,7 +685,6 @@ func createChannelEdge(db kvdb.Backend, node1, node2 *LightningNode) (*ChannelEd
 		FeeProportionalMillionths: 90392423,
 		Node:                      firstNode,
 		ExtraOpaqueData:           []byte("new unknown feature1"),
-		db:                        db,
 	}
 
 	return edgeInfo, edge1, edge2
@@ -992,7 +990,6 @@ func newEdgePolicy(chanID uint64, db kvdb.Backend,
 		MaxHTLC:                   lnwire.MilliSatoshi(prand.Int63()),
 		FeeBaseMSat:               lnwire.MilliSatoshi(prand.Int63()),
 		FeeProportionalMillionths: lnwire.MilliSatoshi(prand.Int63()),
-		db:                        db,
 	}
 }
 
@@ -3202,10 +3199,6 @@ func compareEdgePolicies(a, b *ChannelEdgePolicy) error {
 	if err := compareNodes(a.Node, b.Node); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	if !reflect.DeepEqual(a.db, b.db) {
-		return fmt.Errorf("db doesn't match: expected %#v, \n "+
-			"got %#v", a.db, b.db)
-	}
 	return nil
 }