Github user yhuai commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/13236#issuecomment-221080895 We support different versions of Hive metastore (for example, Spark depends on Hive 1.2.1 but we can talk to a metastore using Hive 0.12). Also, the Hadoop used by this client can be different from the Hadoop used by Spark. We have a IsolatedClientLoader for the class isolation purpose. So, it is possible that we have to reload Hadoop classes (those classes are from a different version of Hadoop than the Hadoop used by Spark). This is the reason that we need to have a option to allow us load Hadoop classes instead of always sharing Hadoop classes. Because of this, we cannot pass Configuration to HiveClientImpl. At here, Hadoop Configuration is only the container of all users' Hadoop settings.
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