diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/Sql/SqlContentEntityStorageSchema.php b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/Sql/SqlContentEntityStorageSchema.php
index 96cea9f49db6db5e2ac52871f59d639b3abd2ce8..61da55f04ff6ec5836c103a98190a42681d41000 100644
--- a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/Sql/SqlContentEntityStorageSchema.php
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/Sql/SqlContentEntityStorageSchema.php
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 use Drupal\Core\DependencyInjection\DependencySerializationTrait;
 use Drupal\Core\Entity\ContentEntityTypeInterface;
 use Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityManagerInterface;
-use Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityPublishedInterface;
 use Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityStorageException;
 use Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityTypeInterface;
 use Drupal\Core\Entity\Exception\FieldStorageDefinitionUpdateForbiddenException;
@@ -549,24 +548,6 @@ protected function getEntitySchema(ContentEntityTypeInterface $entity_type, $res
         $this->processRevisionDataTable($entity_type, $schema[$tables['revision_data_table']]);
       }
 
-      // Add an index for the 'published' entity key.
-      if (is_subclass_of($entity_type->getClass(), EntityPublishedInterface::class)) {
-        $published_key = $entity_type->getKey('published');
-        if ($published_key && !$storage_definitions[$published_key]->hasCustomStorage()) {
-          $published_field_table = $table_mapping->getFieldTableName($published_key);
-          $id_key = $entity_type->getKey('id');
-          if ($bundle_key = $entity_type->getKey('bundle')) {
-            $key = "{$published_key}_{$bundle_key}";
-            $columns = [$published_key, $bundle_key, $id_key];
-          }
-          else {
-            $key = $published_key;
-            $columns = [$published_key, $id_key];
-          }
-          $schema[$published_field_table]['indexes'][$this->getEntityIndexName($entity_type, $key)] = $columns;
-        }
-      }
-
       $this->schema[$entity_type_id] = $schema;
 
       // Restore the actual definition.
diff --git a/core/modules/comment/src/Tests/Update/CommentUpdateTest.php b/core/modules/comment/src/Tests/Update/CommentUpdateTest.php
index 3db9c4a67b39aa1b955310bbca04e5e6f38bce7d..1bf3bdc340931659c8d4c3db534eea6c14455bc8 100644
--- a/core/modules/comment/src/Tests/Update/CommentUpdateTest.php
+++ b/core/modules/comment/src/Tests/Update/CommentUpdateTest.php
@@ -66,9 +66,6 @@ public function testPublishedEntityKey() {
     // Check that the entity key exists and it has the correct value.
     $entity_type = \Drupal::entityDefinitionUpdateManager()->getEntityType('comment');
     $this->assertEqual('status', $entity_type->getKey('published'));
-
-    // Check that the {comment_field_data} table status index has been created.
-    $this->assertTrue(\Drupal::database()->schema()->indexExists('comment_field_data', 'comment__status_comment_type'));
   }
 
 }
diff --git a/core/modules/node/src/NodeStorageSchema.php b/core/modules/node/src/NodeStorageSchema.php
index 18d6303458afe1c66705f7af06328880b1437a61..43bd465dff7870fa23b971b072afa4794c944da8 100644
--- a/core/modules/node/src/NodeStorageSchema.php
+++ b/core/modules/node/src/NodeStorageSchema.php
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ protected function getEntitySchema(ContentEntityTypeInterface $entity_type, $res
 
     $schema['node_field_data']['indexes'] += array(
       'node__frontpage' => array('promote', 'status', 'sticky', 'created'),
+      'node__status_type' => array('status', 'type', 'nid'),
       'node__title_type' => array('title', array('type', 4)),
     );