Github user joshelser commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/phoenix/pull/191
> Would an alternative be to not rely on the User.equals method, but
instead modify ConnectionInfo.equals to do some other kind of equality check on
User?
I think I initially had this idea too (wondering why User doesn't implement
a "normal" value-based equals/hashCode implementation). Devaraj didn't remember
exactly why, but he recalled that there was a reason that UGI (and thus User
also) did this. I could try to dig into the Hadoop archives to see if I can
understand why this was done.
Mostly, I think this approach keeps us in line with what HDFS and HBase
does now which has some value.
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