Github user ericl commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/15998#discussion_r90092477
  
    --- Diff: 
sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalog.scala ---
    @@ -922,6 +923,29 @@ private[spark] class HiveExternalCatalog(conf: 
SparkConf, hadoopConf: Configurat
       /**
        * Returns the partition names from hive metastore for a given table in 
a database.
        */
    +  override def listPartitionNames(
    +      db: String,
    +      table: String,
    +      partialSpec: Option[TablePartitionSpec] = None): Seq[String] = 
withClient {
    +    val actualPartColNames = getTable(db, table).partitionColumnNames
    +    val clientPartitionNames =
    +      client.getPartitionNames(db, table, 
partialSpec.map(lowerCasePartitionSpec))
    +
    +    if (actualPartColNames.exists(partColName => partColName != 
partColName.toLowerCase)) {
    +      clientPartitionNames.map { partName =>
    +        val partSpec = PartitioningUtils.parsePathFragmentAsSeq(partName)
    --- End diff --
    
    That's correct. As of 2.1 we go through some extremes to preserve the case 
of partition names by saving extra metadata inside the table storage 
properties. When the table is resolved in `HiveExternalCatalog`, the lowercase 
schema is reconciled with the saved original names.


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