Github user gatorsmile commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/14757#discussion_r75986531 --- Diff: sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalogSuite.scala --- @@ -21,26 +21,26 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration import org.apache.spark.SparkConf import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.catalog._ -import org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.HiveClient /** * Test suite for the [[HiveExternalCatalog]]. */ class HiveExternalCatalogSuite extends ExternalCatalogSuite { --- End diff -- Before the PR, what `HiveExternalCatalogSuite` uses is a [HiveUtils.newClientForExecution](https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/7bb64aae27f670531699f59d3f410e38866609b7/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalogSuite.scala#L34) . The `newClientForExecution`'s configuration is `newTemporaryConfiguration`, [which makes a new path for metastore](https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/2ae7b88a07140e012b6c60db3c4a2a8ca360c684/sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveUtils.scala#L366-L379). Thus, we can say it is pointing to a different metastore.
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