diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/basicPhysicalOperators.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/basicPhysicalOperators.scala
index 64698d552757..85096dcc40f5 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/basicPhysicalOperators.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/basicPhysicalOperators.scala
@@ -340,8 +340,7 @@ case class RangeExec(range: org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.plans.logical.Range)
   override val output: Seq[Attribute] = range.output
 
   override lazy val metrics = Map(
-    "numOutputRows" -> SQLMetrics.createMetric(sparkContext, "number of output rows"),
-    "numGeneratedRows" -> SQLMetrics.createMetric(sparkContext, "number of generated rows"))
+    "numOutputRows" -> SQLMetrics.createMetric(sparkContext, "number of output rows"))
 
   override lazy val canonicalized: SparkPlan = {
     RangeExec(range.canonicalized.asInstanceOf[org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.plans.logical.Range])
@@ -354,7 +353,6 @@ case class RangeExec(range: org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.plans.logical.Range)
 
   protected override def doProduce(ctx: CodegenContext): String = {
     val numOutput = metricTerm(ctx, "numOutputRows")
-    val numGenerated = metricTerm(ctx, "numGeneratedRows")
 
     val initTerm = ctx.freshName("initRange")
     ctx.addMutableState("boolean", initTerm, s"$initTerm = false;")