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Hive meta store libraries introduced a specific thrift library version that is not compatible with our internal flink version. This led to our Flink SQL jobs version conflict.  We propose shading  libthrift and fb303 in the flink hive connector, and move those two packages to the project root level maven config; users could place their own customized libthrift jar as well as thrift schema jar into the /lib folder during releaseWe suggest user upgrade hive metastore version to match thrift version given keeping two thrift version leads to hive connector dependencies complicated to manage.

Thrift format table DDL script

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If there are alternative ways of accomplishing the same thing, what were they? The purpose of this section is to motivate why the design is the way it is and not some other way.

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