diff --git a/sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalog.scala b/sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalog.scala
index 5be991b471..208c8c9d5d 100644
--- a/sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalog.scala
+++ b/sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalog.scala
@@ -839,26 +839,6 @@ private[spark] class HiveExternalCatalog(conf: SparkConf, hadoopConf: Configurat
     spec.map { case (k, v) => partCols.find(_.equalsIgnoreCase(k)).get -> v }
   }
 
-
-  /**
-   * The partition path created by Hive is in lowercase, while Spark SQL will
-   * rename it with the partition name in partitionColumnNames, and this function
-   * returns the extra lowercase path created by Hive, and then we can delete it.
-   * e.g. /path/A=1/B=2/C=3 is changed to /path/A=4/B=5/C=6, this function returns
-   * /path/a=4
-   */
-  def getExtraPartPathCreatedByHive(
-      spec: TablePartitionSpec,
-      partitionColumnNames: Seq[String],
-      tablePath: Path): Path = {
-    val partColumnNames = partitionColumnNames
-      .take(partitionColumnNames.indexWhere(col => col.toLowerCase != col) + 1)
-      .map(_.toLowerCase)
-
-    ExternalCatalogUtils.generatePartitionPath(lowerCasePartitionSpec(spec),
-      partColumnNames, tablePath)
-  }
-
   override def createPartitions(
       db: String,
       table: String,
@@ -919,21 +899,6 @@ private[spark] class HiveExternalCatalog(conf: SparkConf, hadoopConf: Configurat
           spec, partitionColumnNames, tablePath)
         try {
           tablePath.getFileSystem(hadoopConf).rename(wrongPath, rightPath)
-
-          // If the newSpec contains more than one depth partition, FileSystem.rename just deletes
-          // the leaf(i.e. wrongPath), we should check if wrongPath's parents need to be deleted.
-          // For example, give a newSpec 'A=1/B=2', after calling Hive's client.renamePartitions,
-          // the location path in FileSystem is changed to 'a=1/b=2', which is wrongPath, then
-          // although we renamed it to 'A=1/B=2', 'a=1/b=2' in FileSystem is deleted, but 'a=1'
-          // is still exists, which we also need to delete
-          val delHivePartPathAfterRename = getExtraPartPathCreatedByHive(
-            spec,
-            partitionColumnNames,
-            tablePath)
-
-          if (delHivePartPathAfterRename != wrongPath) {
-            tablePath.getFileSystem(hadoopConf).delete(delHivePartPathAfterRename, true)
-          }
         } catch {
           case e: IOException => throw new SparkException(
             s"Unable to rename partition path from $wrongPath to $rightPath", e)
diff --git a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/PartitionProviderCompatibilitySuite.scala b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/PartitionProviderCompatibilitySuite.scala
index 1214a92b76..dca207a72d 100644
--- a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/PartitionProviderCompatibilitySuite.scala
+++ b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/PartitionProviderCompatibilitySuite.scala
@@ -19,11 +19,8 @@ package org.apache.spark.sql.hive
 
 import java.io.File
 
-import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path
-
 import org.apache.spark.metrics.source.HiveCatalogMetrics
 import org.apache.spark.sql.{AnalysisException, QueryTest}
-import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.TableIdentifier
 import org.apache.spark.sql.hive.test.TestHiveSingleton
 import org.apache.spark.sql.internal.SQLConf
 import org.apache.spark.sql.test.SQLTestUtils
@@ -484,37 +481,4 @@ class PartitionProviderCompatibilitySuite
       assert(spark.sql("show partitions test").count() == 5)
     }
   }
-
-  test("partition path created by Hive should be deleted after renamePartitions with upper-case") {
-    withTable("t", "t1", "t2") {
-      Seq((1, 2, 3)).toDF("id", "A", "B").write.partitionBy("A", "B").saveAsTable("t")
-      spark.sql("alter table t partition(A=2, B=3) rename to partition(A=4, B=5)")
-
-      var table = spark.sessionState.catalog.getTableMetadata(TableIdentifier("t"))
-      var extraHivePath = new Path(table.location + "/a=4")
-      assert(!extraHivePath.getFileSystem(spark.sessionState.newHadoopConf())
-        .exists(extraHivePath), "partition path created by Hive should be deleted " +
-        "after renamePartitions with upper-case")
-
-      Seq((1, 2, 3, 4)).toDF("id", "A", "B", "C").write.partitionBy("A", "B", "C").saveAsTable("t1")
-      spark.sql("alter table t1 partition(A=2, B=3, C=4) rename to partition(A=5, B=6, C=7)")
-      table = spark.sessionState.catalog.getTableMetadata(TableIdentifier("t1"))
-      extraHivePath = new Path(table.location + "/a=5")
-      assert(!extraHivePath.getFileSystem(spark.sessionState.newHadoopConf())
-        .exists(extraHivePath), "partition path created by Hive should be deleted " +
-        "after renamePartitions with upper-case")
-
-      Seq((1, 2, 3, 4)).toDF("id", "a", "B", "C").write.partitionBy("a", "B", "C").saveAsTable("t2")
-      spark.sql("alter table t2 partition(a=2, B=3, C=4) rename to partition(a=4, B=5, C=6)")
-      table = spark.sessionState.catalog.getTableMetadata(TableIdentifier("t2"))
-      val partPath = new Path(table.location + "/a=4")
-      assert(partPath.getFileSystem(spark.sessionState.newHadoopConf())
-        .exists(partPath), "partition path of lower-case partition name should not be deleted")
-
-      extraHivePath = new Path(table.location + "/a=4/b=5")
-      assert(!extraHivePath.getFileSystem(spark.sessionState.newHadoopConf())
-        .exists(extraHivePath), "partition path created by Hive should be deleted " +
-        "after renamePartitions with upper-case")
-    }
-  }
 }