diff --git a/fe/src/main/java/org/apache/impala/analysis/PartitionSet.java b/fe/src/main/java/org/apache/impala/analysis/PartitionSet.java
index 3ba2ad278c..d5f0e70a2d 100644
--- a/fe/src/main/java/org/apache/impala/analysis/PartitionSet.java
+++ b/fe/src/main/java/org/apache/impala/analysis/PartitionSet.java
@@ -137,12 +137,11 @@ private void addIfExists(
     }
   }
 
-  // Transform <COL> = NULL into IsNull expr; <String COL> = '' into IsNull expr and
-  // <String COL> = 'String Value' into lower case.
+  // Transform <COL> = NULL into IsNull expr; <String COL> = '' into IsNull expr.
   // The reason is that COL = NULL is allowed for selecting the NULL
   // partition, but a COL = NULL predicate can never be true, so we
   // need to transform such predicates before feeding them into the
-  // partition pruner. Same logic goes to String transformation.
+  // partition pruner.
   private List<Expr> transformPartitionConjuncts(Analyzer analyzer, List<Expr> conjuncts)
       throws AnalysisException {
     List<Expr> transformedConjuncts = Lists.newArrayList();
@@ -162,9 +161,6 @@ private List<Expr> transformPartitionConjuncts(Analyzer analyzer, List<Expr> con
           } else if (leftChild != null && stringChild != null) {
             if (stringChild.getStringValue().isEmpty()) {
               result = new IsNullPredicate(leftChild, false);
-            } else {
-              stringChild = new StringLiteral(stringChild.getStringValue().toLowerCase());
-              result.setChild(1, stringChild);
             }
           }
         }
diff --git a/fe/src/main/java/org/apache/impala/catalog/HdfsTable.java b/fe/src/main/java/org/apache/impala/catalog/HdfsTable.java
index c2c569fdc7..904c90ff4a 100644
--- a/fe/src/main/java/org/apache/impala/catalog/HdfsTable.java
+++ b/fe/src/main/java/org/apache/impala/catalog/HdfsTable.java
@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ public HdfsPartition getPartitionFromThriftPartitionSpec(
     for (FieldSchema fs: getMetaStoreTable().getPartitionKeys()) {
       for (TPartitionKeyValue kv: partitionSpec) {
         if (fs.getName().toLowerCase().equals(kv.getName().toLowerCase())) {
-          targetValues.add(kv.getValue().toLowerCase());
+          targetValues.add(kv.getValue());
           // Same key was specified twice
           if (!keys.add(kv.getName().toLowerCase())) {
             return null;
@@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ public HdfsPartition getPartitionFromThriftPartitionSpec(
           // backwards compatibility with Hive, and is clearly broken.
           if (value.isEmpty()) value = getNullPartitionKeyValue();
         }
-        if (!targetValues.get(i).equals(value.toLowerCase())) {
+        if (!targetValues.get(i).equals(value)) {
           matchFound = false;
           break;
         }
diff --git a/fe/src/test/java/org/apache/impala/analysis/AnalyzeDDLTest.java b/fe/src/test/java/org/apache/impala/analysis/AnalyzeDDLTest.java
index 935edc52b0..5a08f98cf6 100644
--- a/fe/src/test/java/org/apache/impala/analysis/AnalyzeDDLTest.java
+++ b/fe/src/test/java/org/apache/impala/analysis/AnalyzeDDLTest.java
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ public void TestAlterTableSet() throws AnalysisException {
     AnalyzesOk("alter table functional.stringpartitionkey PARTITION " +
                "(string_col='partition1') set fileformat parquet");
     AnalyzesOk("alter table functional.stringpartitionkey PARTITION " +
-               "(string_col='PaRtiTion1') set location '/a/b/c'");
+               "(string_col='partition1') set location '/a/b/c'");
     AnalyzesOk("alter table functional.alltypes PARTITION (year=2010, month=11) " +
                "set tblproperties('a'='1')");
     AnalyzesOk("alter table functional.alltypes PARTITION (year<=2010, month=11) " +
diff --git a/testdata/workloads/functional-query/queries/QueryTest/partition-ddl-predicates-all-fs.test b/testdata/workloads/functional-query/queries/QueryTest/partition-ddl-predicates-all-fs.test
index 36104c3894..1aa5c5136a 100644
--- a/testdata/workloads/functional-query/queries/QueryTest/partition-ddl-predicates-all-fs.test
+++ b/testdata/workloads/functional-query/queries/QueryTest/partition-ddl-predicates-all-fs.test
@@ -133,3 +133,23 @@ show partitions p1
 ---- TYPES
 STRING, STRING, BIGINT, BIGINT, STRING, STRING, STRING, STRING, STRING, STRING
 ====
+---- QUERY
+# Tests case-sensitivity of string-typed partition columns.
+alter table p1 add partition (j=2,k="D");
+alter table p1 add partition (j=2,k="E");
+alter table p1 add partition (j=2,k="F");
+====
+---- QUERY
+show partitions p1
+---- RESULTS
+'NULL','g',-1,0,regex:.+,regex:.+,regex:.+,regex:.+,regex:.+,regex:.*/test-warehouse/.+/p1/j=__HIVE_DEFAULT_PARTITION__/k=g
+'2','D',-1,0,regex:.+,regex:.+,regex:.+,'TEXT',regex:.+,regex:.*/test-warehouse/.+/p1/j=2/k=D
+'2','E',-1,0,regex:.+,regex:.+,regex:.+,'TEXT',regex:.+,regex:.*/test-warehouse/.+/p1/j=2/k=E
+'2','F',-1,0,regex:.+,regex:.+,regex:.+,'TEXT',regex:.+,regex:.*/test-warehouse/.+/p1/j=2/k=F
+'2','d',-1,0,regex:.+,regex:.+,regex:.+,'PARQUET',regex:.+,regex:.*/test-warehouse/.+/p1/j=2/k=d
+'2','e',-1,0,regex:.+,regex:.+,regex:.+,'PARQUET',regex:.+,regex:.*/test-warehouse/.+/p1/j=2/k=e
+'2','f',-1,0,regex:.+,regex:.+,regex:.+,'PARQUET',regex:.+,regex:.*/test-warehouse/.+/p1/j=2/k=f
+'Total','',0,0,regex:.+,regex:.+,'','','',''
+---- TYPES
+STRING, STRING, BIGINT, BIGINT, STRING, STRING, STRING, STRING, STRING, STRING
+====