Remove deprecated to_record_batch_stream method; use execute_stream instead

Author: kosiew

dev/changelog/50.0.0.md

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+# Apache DataFusion Python 50.0.0 Changelog
+
+**Other:**
+
+- remove deprecated `DataFrame.to_record_batch_stream`; use `execute_stream` instead.

python/datafusion/dataframe.py

@@ -1047,18 +1047,6 @@ def execute_stream_partitioned(self) -> list[RecordBatchStream]:
         streams = self.df.execute_stream_partitioned()
         return [RecordBatchStream(rbs) for rbs in streams]
 
-    @deprecated("Use execute_stream() instead")
-    def to_record_batch_stream(self) -> RecordBatchStream:
-        """Return a :py:class:`RecordBatchStream` over this DataFrame's results.
-
-        This method is deprecated. Use :py:meth:`execute_stream` instead.
-
-        Returns:
-            A ``RecordBatchStream`` representing the lazily generated record
-            batches for this DataFrame.
-        """
-        return self.execute_stream()
-
     def to_pandas(self) -> pd.DataFrame:
         """Execute the :py:class:`DataFrame` and convert it into a Pandas DataFrame.