Github user gatorsmile commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16638#discussion_r97446544 --- Diff: sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/SparkSqlParser.scala --- @@ -1140,14 +1140,18 @@ class SparkSqlAstBuilder(conf: SQLConf) extends AstBuilder { * * For example: * {{{ - * CREATE TABLE [IF NOT EXISTS] [db_name.]table_name - * LIKE [other_db_name.]existing_table_name + * CREATE [EXTERNAL] TABLE [IF NOT EXISTS] [db_name.]table_name + * LIKE [other_db_name.]existing_table_name [locationSpec] * }}} */ override def visitCreateTableLike(ctx: CreateTableLikeContext): LogicalPlan = withOrigin(ctx) { val targetTable = visitTableIdentifier(ctx.target) val sourceTable = visitTableIdentifier(ctx.source) - CreateTableLikeCommand(targetTable, sourceTable, ctx.EXISTS != null) + val location = Option(ctx.locationSpec).map(visitLocationSpec) + if (ctx.EXTERNAL != null && location.isEmpty) { + operationNotAllowed("CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE LIKE must be accompanied by LOCATION", ctx) + } --- End diff -- To the other reviewers, we are following what we did in `visitCreateHiveTable`
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