diff --git a/installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl b/installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl
index 7e5e06b333..c2652dc068 100755
--- a/installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl
+++ b/installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl
@@ -11429,6 +11429,15 @@ if(CheckVersion($DBversion)) {
     SetVersion($DBversion);
 }
 
+$DBversion = "XXX";
+if ( CheckVersion($DBversion) ) {
+    $dbh->do(q{
+        DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `stopwords`;
+    });
+    print "Upgrade to $DBversion done (Removed obsolete 'stopwords' table)\n";
+    SetVersion($DBversion);
+}
+
 # DEVELOPER PROCESS, search for anything to execute in the db_update directory
 # SEE bug 13068
 # if there is anything in the atomicupdate, read and execute it.