diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/command/ddl.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/command/ddl.scala
index 1d3cc88c9fac7..ee5d37cebf2f3 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/command/ddl.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/command/ddl.scala
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs._
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.{FileInputFormat, JobConf}
 
+import org.apache.spark.internal.config.RDD_PARALLEL_LISTING_THRESHOLD
 import org.apache.spark.sql.{AnalysisException, Row, SparkSession}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.TableIdentifier
 import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.analysis.Resolver
@@ -613,7 +614,7 @@ case class AlterTableRecoverPartitionsCommand(
     val hadoopConf = spark.sessionState.newHadoopConf()
     val fs = root.getFileSystem(hadoopConf)
 
-    val threshold = spark.conf.get("spark.rdd.parallelListingThreshold", "10").toInt
+    val threshold = spark.sparkContext.conf.get(RDD_PARALLEL_LISTING_THRESHOLD)
     val pathFilter = getPathFilter(hadoopConf)
 
     val evalPool = ThreadUtils.newForkJoinPool("AlterTableRecoverPartitionsCommand", 8)
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/command/DDLSuite.scala b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/command/DDLSuite.scala
index ba39dcf77b470..4859bde525612 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/command/DDLSuite.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/command/DDLSuite.scala
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path
 import org.scalatest.BeforeAndAfterEach
 
 import org.apache.spark.internal.config
+import org.apache.spark.internal.config.RDD_PARALLEL_LISTING_THRESHOLD
 import org.apache.spark.sql.{AnalysisException, QueryTest, Row, SaveMode}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.TableIdentifier
 import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.analysis.{FunctionRegistry, NoSuchPartitionException, NoSuchTableException, TempTableAlreadyExistsException}
@@ -1122,13 +1123,13 @@ abstract class DDLSuite extends QueryTest with SQLTestUtils {
   }
 
   test("alter table: recover partitions (sequential)") {
-    withSQLConf("spark.rdd.parallelListingThreshold" -> "10") {
+    withSQLConf(RDD_PARALLEL_LISTING_THRESHOLD.key -> "10") {
       testRecoverPartitions()
     }
   }
 
   test("alter table: recover partition (parallel)") {
-    withSQLConf("spark.rdd.parallelListingThreshold" -> "0") {
+    withSQLConf(RDD_PARALLEL_LISTING_THRESHOLD.key -> "0") {
       testRecoverPartitions()
     }
   }