diff --git a/django/db/backends/__init__.py b/django/db/backends/__init__.py
index f0fd2f56d26..9b0f4957491 100644
--- a/django/db/backends/__init__.py
+++ b/django/db/backends/__init__.py
@@ -1034,9 +1034,12 @@ class BaseDatabaseIntrospection(object):
 
     def get_primary_key_column(self, cursor, table_name):
         """
-        Backends can override this to return the column name of the primary key for the given table.
+        Returns the name of the primary key column for the given table.
         """
-        raise NotImplementedError
+        for column in six.iteritems(self.get_indexes(cursor, table_name)):
+            if column[1]['primary_key']:
+                return column[0]
+        return None
 
     def get_indexes(self, cursor, table_name):
         """
diff --git a/django/db/backends/mysql/introspection.py b/django/db/backends/mysql/introspection.py
index 3b5a6fecd3e..c552263e5ec 100644
--- a/django/db/backends/mysql/introspection.py
+++ b/django/db/backends/mysql/introspection.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import re
 from .base import FIELD_TYPE
 
 from django.db.backends import BaseDatabaseIntrospection
-from django.utils import six
 
 
 foreign_key_re = re.compile(r"\sCONSTRAINT `[^`]*` FOREIGN KEY \(`([^`]*)`\) REFERENCES `([^`]*)` \(`([^`]*)`\)")
@@ -88,15 +87,6 @@ class DatabaseIntrospection(BaseDatabaseIntrospection):
         key_columns.extend(cursor.fetchall())
         return key_columns
 
-    def get_primary_key_column(self, cursor, table_name):
-        """
-        Returns the name of the primary key column for the given table
-        """
-        for column in six.iteritems(self.get_indexes(cursor, table_name)):
-            if column[1]['primary_key']:
-                return column[0]
-        return None
-
     def get_indexes(self, cursor, table_name):
         cursor.execute("SHOW INDEX FROM %s" % self.connection.ops.quote_name(table_name))
         # Do a two-pass search for indexes: on first pass check which indexes