Eduard Tudenhoefner

This addresses https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/9596#discussion_r1473187177 and assigns fresh IDs to a View's schema when creating/replacing a view

[Infra] Separate out delta-spark python tests

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#### Which Delta project/connector is this regarding? - [ ] Spark - [ ] Standalone - [ ] Flink - [ ] Kernel - [X] Other (Infra) ## Description Separate...

#### Which Delta project/connector is this regarding? - [ ] Spark - [ ] Standalone - [ ] Flink - [ ] Kernel - [ ] Other (fill in here)...

#### Which Delta project/connector is this regarding? - [ ] Spark - [ ] Standalone - [ ] Flink - [ ] Kernel - [ ] Other (fill in here)...

#### Which Delta project/connector is this regarding? - [ ] Spark - [ ] Standalone - [ ] Flink - [ ] Kernel - [ ] Other (fill in here)...

#### Which Delta project/connector is this regarding? - [ ] Spark - [ ] Standalone - [ ] Flink - [ ] Kernel - [ ] Other (fill in here)...

This is a draft PR and an improvement proposal will follow

Replace Thread.sleep() usage in test code with Awaitility

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### Feature Request / Improvement It would be great to re-visit all `Thread.sleep()` usages in the test code and see which can be converted to [Awaitility](https://github.com/awaitility/awaitility/wiki/Usage) ### Query engine None

Core: Add Catalog Transactions API

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I have written up a design doc, which is available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UxXifU8iqP_byaW4E2RuKZx1nobxmAvc5urVcWas1B8/edit?usp=sharing) I think eventually we'd want to split this into 2 PRs, so that the introduced APIs can be reviewed...