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### What changes were proposed in this pull request?
The existing `CREATE TABLE LIKE` command has multiple issues:
- The generated table is non-empty when the source table is a data source table. The major reason is the data source table is using the table property `path` to store the location of table contents. Currently, we keep it unchanged. Thus, we still create the same table with the same location.
- The table type of the generated table is `EXTERNAL` when the source table is an external Hive Serde table. Currently, we explicitly set it to `MANAGED`, but Hive is checking the table property `EXTERNAL` to decide whether the table is `EXTERNAL` or not. (See https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/metastore/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/ObjectStore.java#L1407-L1408) Thus, the created table is still `EXTERNAL`.
- When the source table is a `VIEW`, the metadata of the generated table contains the original view text and view original text. So far, this does not break anything, but it could cause something wrong in Hive. (For example, https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/metastore/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/ObjectStore.java#L1405-L1406)
- The issue regarding the table `comment`. To follow what Hive does, the table comment should be cleaned, but the column comments should be still kept.
- The `INDEX` table is not supported. Thus, we should throw an exception in this case.
- `owner` should not be retained. `ToHiveTable` set it [here](
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