diff --git a/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/client/bootstrap/HoodieSparkBootstrapSchemaProvider.java b/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/client/bootstrap/HoodieSparkBootstrapSchemaProvider.java
index e2a9e6837261..b161182b83a3 100644
--- a/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/client/bootstrap/HoodieSparkBootstrapSchemaProvider.java
+++ b/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/client/bootstrap/HoodieSparkBootstrapSchemaProvider.java
@@ -18,15 +18,14 @@
 
 package org.apache.hudi.client.bootstrap;
 
-import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hudi.AvroConversionUtils;
 import org.apache.hudi.avro.HoodieAvroUtils;
 import org.apache.hudi.avro.model.HoodieFileStatus;
+import org.apache.hudi.client.common.HoodieSparkEngineContext;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.bootstrap.FileStatusUtils;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.engine.HoodieEngineContext;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.fs.FSUtils;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.util.AvroOrcUtils;
-import org.apache.hudi.common.util.ParquetUtils;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.util.collection.Pair;
 import org.apache.hudi.config.HoodieWriteConfig;
 import org.apache.hudi.exception.HoodieException;
@@ -36,8 +35,6 @@
 import org.apache.orc.OrcFile;
 import org.apache.orc.Reader;
 import org.apache.orc.TypeDescription;
-import org.apache.parquet.schema.MessageType;
-import org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.parquet.ParquetToSparkSchemaConverter;
 import org.apache.spark.sql.internal.SQLConf;
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructType;
 
@@ -72,26 +69,22 @@ protected Schema getBootstrapSourceSchema(HoodieEngineContext context, List<Pair
   }
 
   private static Schema getBootstrapSourceSchemaParquet(HoodieWriteConfig writeConfig, HoodieEngineContext context, Path filePath) {
-    Configuration hadoopConf = context.getHadoopConf().get();
-    MessageType parquetSchema = new ParquetUtils().readSchema(hadoopConf, filePath);
-
-    hadoopConf.set(
-        SQLConf.PARQUET_BINARY_AS_STRING().key(),
-        SQLConf.PARQUET_BINARY_AS_STRING().defaultValueString());
-    hadoopConf.set(
-        SQLConf.PARQUET_INT96_AS_TIMESTAMP().key(),
-        SQLConf.PARQUET_INT96_AS_TIMESTAMP().defaultValueString());
-    hadoopConf.set(
-        SQLConf.CASE_SENSITIVE().key(),
-        SQLConf.CASE_SENSITIVE().defaultValueString());
-    ParquetToSparkSchemaConverter converter = new ParquetToSparkSchemaConverter(hadoopConf);
-
-    StructType sparkSchema = converter.convert(parquetSchema);
+    // NOTE: The type inference of partition column in the parquet table is turned off explicitly,
+    // to be consistent with the existing bootstrap behavior, where the partition column is String
+    // typed in Hudi table.
+    // TODO(HUDI-4932): add a config to allow type inference of partition column in bootstrap and
+    //  support other types of partition column as well
+    ((HoodieSparkEngineContext) context).getSqlContext()
+        .setConf(SQLConf.PARTITION_COLUMN_TYPE_INFERENCE(), false);
+    StructType parquetSchema = ((HoodieSparkEngineContext) context).getSqlContext().read()
+        .option("basePath", writeConfig.getBootstrapSourceBasePath())
+        .parquet(filePath.toString())
+        .schema();
     String tableName = HoodieAvroUtils.sanitizeName(writeConfig.getTableName());
     String structName = tableName + "_record";
     String recordNamespace = "hoodie." + tableName;
 
-    return AvroConversionUtils.convertStructTypeToAvroSchema(sparkSchema, structName, recordNamespace);
+    return AvroConversionUtils.convertStructTypeToAvroSchema(parquetSchema, structName, recordNamespace);
   }
 
   private static Schema getBootstrapSourceSchemaOrc(HoodieWriteConfig writeConfig, HoodieEngineContext context, Path filePath) {
diff --git a/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/hudi/HoodieBootstrapRelation.scala b/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/hudi/HoodieBootstrapRelation.scala
index 4ec7f65913de..0dd54237ef58 100644
--- a/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/hudi/HoodieBootstrapRelation.scala
+++ b/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/hudi/HoodieBootstrapRelation.scala
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ class HoodieBootstrapRelation(@transient val _sqlContext: SQLContext,
     if (fullSchema == null) {
       logInfo("Inferring schema..")
       val schemaResolver = new TableSchemaResolver(metaClient)
-      val tableSchema = TableSchemaResolver.appendPartitionColumns(schemaResolver.getTableAvroSchemaWithoutMetadataFields, metaClient.getTableConfig.getPartitionFields)
+      val tableSchema = schemaResolver.getTableAvroSchema(false)
       dataSchema = AvroConversionUtils.convertAvroSchemaToStructType(tableSchema)
       fullSchema = StructType(skeletonSchema.fields ++ dataSchema.fields)
     }