diff --git a/Lib/sqlite3/dump.py b/Lib/sqlite3/dump.py
index cd5fd79258555f..1cf8759f8970f1 100644
--- a/Lib/sqlite3/dump.py
+++ b/Lib/sqlite3/dump.py
@@ -7,28 +7,6 @@
 # future enhancements, you should normally quote any identifier that
 # is an English language word, even if you do not have to."
 
-
-from contextlib import contextmanager
-
-
-def _force_decode(bs, *args, **kwargs):
-    # gh-108590: Don't fail if the database contains invalid Unicode data.
-    try:
-        return bs.decode(*args, **kwargs)
-    except UnicodeDecodeError:
-        return "".join([chr(c) for c in bs])
-
-
-@contextmanager
-def _text_factory(con, factory):
-    saved_factory = con.text_factory
-    con.text_factory = factory
-    try:
-        yield
-    finally:
-        con.text_factory = saved_factory
-
-
 def _iterdump(connection):
     """
     Returns an iterator to the dump of the database in an SQL text format.
@@ -85,9 +63,8 @@ def _iterdump(connection):
             table_name_ident,
             ",".join("""'||quote("{0}")||'""".format(col.replace('"', '""')) for col in column_names))
         query_res = cu.execute(q)
-        with _text_factory(connection, bytes):
-            for row in query_res:
-                yield("{0};".format(_force_decode(row[0])))
+        for row in query_res:
+            yield("{0};".format(row[0]))
 
     # Now when the type is 'index', 'trigger', or 'view'
     q = """
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sqlite3/test_dump.py b/Lib/test/test_sqlite3/test_dump.py
index 3f6de925368e9e..c3ed3aefef0445 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sqlite3/test_dump.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sqlite3/test_dump.py
@@ -137,21 +137,6 @@ def test_dump_virtual_tables(self):
         actual = list(self.cx.iterdump())
         self.assertEqual(expected, actual)
 
-    def test_dump_unicode_invalid(self):
-        # gh-108590
-        expected = [
-            "BEGIN TRANSACTION;",
-            "CREATE TABLE foo (data TEXT);",
-            "INSERT INTO \"foo\" VALUES('a\x9f');",
-            "COMMIT;",
-        ]
-        self.cu.executescript("""
-            CREATE TABLE foo (data TEXT);
-            INSERT INTO foo VALUES (CAST(X'619f' AS TEXT));
-        """)
-        actual = list(self.cx.iterdump())
-        self.assertEqual(expected, actual)
-
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-08-29-22-53-48.gh-issue-108590.6k0pOl.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-08-29-22-53-48.gh-issue-108590.6k0pOl.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 50b41f2a94d9be..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-08-29-22-53-48.gh-issue-108590.6k0pOl.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fixed an issue where :meth:`sqlite3.Connection.iterdump` would fail and leave an incomplete SQL dump if a table includes invalid Unicode sequences. Patch by Corvin McPherson