dbt Core: dbt-core v1.6.0

## dbt-core 1.6.0 - Quiara Alegría Hudes (July 31, 2023) ### Breaking Changes - Dropped support for Python 3.7 ([#7082](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7082)) - Switch from dbt-metrics to dbt-semantic-interfaces for MetricNode definitions ([#7500](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7500), [#7404](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7404)) ### Features - Add merge as valid incremental strategy for postgres ([#1880](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/1880)) - Skip catalog generation ([#6980](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6980)) - Add support for materialized views ([#6911](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6911)) - Publication artifacts and cross-project ref ([#7227](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7227)) - Optimize template rendering for common parse scenarios ([#7449](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7449)) - Add graph structure summaries to target path output ([#7357](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7357)) - Allow duplicate manifest node (models, seeds, analyses, snapshots) names across packages ([#7446](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7446)) - Detect breaking changes to enforced constraints ([#7065](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7065)) - Check for project dependency cycles ([#7468](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7468)) - nodes in packages respect custom generate_alias_name, generate_schema_name, generate_database_name macro overrides defined in packages ([#7444](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7444)) - Added warnings for model and ref deprecations ([#7433](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7433)) - Update drop_relation macro to allow for configuration of drop statement separately from object name ([#7625](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7625)) - accept publications in dbt.invoke ([#7372](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7372)) - Enable state for deferral to be separate from state for selectors ([#7300](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7300)) - add access selection syntax ([#7738](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7738)) - add project_name to manifest metadata ([#7752](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7752)) - dbt retry ([#7299](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7299)) - This change adds new selector methods to the state selector. Namely, state:unmodified and state:old. ([#7564](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7564)) - Revamp debug, add --connection flag. Prepare for future refactors/interface changes. ([#7104](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7104)) - Validate public models are not materialized as ephemeral ([#7226](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7226)) - Added support for parsing and serializaing semantic models ([#7499](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7499), [#7503](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7503)) - Enable setting packages in dependencies.yml ([#7372](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7372), [#7736](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7736)) - Add AdapterRegistered event log message ([#7038](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7038)) - dbt clone ([#7258](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7258)) - Further integrate semantic models into the DAG and partial parsing module ([#7800](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7800)) - Handle external model nodes in state:modified ([#7563](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7563)) - Add invocation_command to flags ([#6051](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6051)) - Add thread_id context var ([#7941](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7941)) - Add partial parsing support for semantic models ([#7897](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7897)) - Add restrict-access to dbt_project.yml ([#7713](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7713)) - allow setting enabled and depends_on_nodes from ModelNodeArgs ([#7506](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7506)) - Support '_'-delimited fqn matching for versioned models and matching on Path.stem for path selection ([#7639](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7639)) - Store time_spline table configuration in semantic manifest ([#7938](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7938)) - Add validate_sql method to BaseAdapter with implementation for SQLAdapter ([#7839](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7839)) - Support validation of metrics and semantic models. ([#7969](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7969)) - Begin populating `depends_on` of metric nodes ([#7854](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7854)) - Enumerate supported materialized view features for dbt-postgres ([#6911](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6911)) ### Fixes - Raise better error message when dispatching a package that is not installed ([#5801](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/5801)) - add negative part_number arg for split part macro ([#7915](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7915)) - Persist timing info in run results for failed nodes ([#5476](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/5476)) - fix typo in unpacking statically parsed ref ([#7364](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7364)) - safe version attribute access in _check_resource_uniqueness ([#7375](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7375)) - Fix dbt command missing target-path param ([# 7411](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/ 7411)) - Fix CTE insertion position when the model uses WITH RECURSIVE ([#7350](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7350)) - Fix v0 ref resolution ([#7408](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7408)) - Add --target-path to dbt snapshot command. ([#7418](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7418)) - dbt build selection of tests' descendants ([#7289](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7289)) - fix groupable node partial parsing, raise DbtReferenceError at runtime for safety ([#7437](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7437)) - Fix partial parsing of latest_version changes for downstream references ([#7369](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7369)) - Use "add_node" to update depends_on.nodes ([#7453](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7453)) - Fix var precedence in configs: root vars override package vars ([#6705](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6705)) - Constraint rendering fixes: wrap check expression in parentheses, foreign key 'references', support expression in all constraint types ([#7417](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7417), [#7480](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7480), [#7416](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7416)) - Fix inverted `--print/--no-print` flag ([#7517](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7517)) - Back-compat for previous return type of 'collect_freshness' macro ([#7489](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7489)) - Fix warning messages for deprecated dbt_project.yml configs ([#7424](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7424)) - Respect column 'quote' config in model contracts ([#7370](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7370)) - print model version in dbt show if specified ([#7407](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7407)) - enable dbt show for seeds ([#7273](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7273)) - push down limit filtering to adapter ([#7390](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7390)) - Allow missing `profiles.yml` for `dbt deps` and `dbt init` ([#7511](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7511)) - `run_results.json` is now written after every node completes. ([#7302](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7302)) - Do not rewrite manifest.json during 'docs serve' command ([#7553](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7553)) - Pin protobuf to greater than 4.0.0 ([#7565](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7565)) - inject sql header in query for show ([#7413](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7413)) - Pin urllib3 to ~=1.0 ([#7573](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7573)) - Throw error for duplicated versioned and unversioned models ([#7487](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7487)) - Honor `--skip-profile-setup` parameter when inside an existing project ([#7594](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7594)) - Fix: Relative project paths weren't working with deps ([#7491](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7491)) - Exclude password fields from Jinja rendering. ([#7629](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7629)) - Add --target-path to more CLI subcommands ([#7646](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7646)) - Stringify flag paths for Jinja context ([#7495](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7495)) - write run_results.json for run operation ([#7502](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7502)) - Add `%` to adapter suite test cases for `persist_docs` ([#7698](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7698)) - Unified to UTC ([#7664](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7664)) - Improve warnings for constraints and materialization types ([#7335](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7335)) - Incorrect paths used for "target" and "state" directories ([#7465](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7465)) - fix StopIteration error when publication for project not found ([#7711](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7711)) - Using version 0 works when resolving single model ([#7372](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7372)) - Fix empty --warn-error-options error message ([#7730](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7730)) - send sql header on contract enforcement ([#7714](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7714)) - Fixed doc link in selector.py ([#7533](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7533)) - Fix null-safe equals comparison via `equals` ([#7778](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7778)) - Log PublicationArtifactAvailable even when partially parsing unchanged public models ([#7782](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7782)) - fix RuntimeError when removing project dependency from dependencies.yml ([#7743](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7743)) - Fix regression in `run-operation` to not require the name of the package to run ([#7753](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7753)) - Fix path selector when using project-dir ([#7819](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7819)) - Allow project dependencies to use miscellaneous keys ([#7497](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7497)) - Allow dbt show --inline preview of private models ([#7837](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7837)) - Updating this error message to point to the correct URL ([#7789](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7789)) - Update SemanticModel node to properly impelment the DSI 0.1.0dev3 SemanticModel protocol spec ([#7833](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7833), [#7827](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7827)) - Allow semantic model measure exprs to be defined with ints and bools in yaml ([#7865](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7865)) - Update `use_discrete_percentile` and `use_approximate_percentile` to be non optional and default to `False` ([#7866](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7866)) - Fix accidental propagation of log messages to root logger. ([#7872](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7872)) - Fixed an issue which blocked debug logging to stdout with --log-level debug, unless --debug was also used. ([#7872](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7872)) - Skip jinja parsing of metric filters ([#7864](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7864)) - Fix a bad implicit string conversion regression in debug --config-dir code. ([#7774](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7774)) - Remove limitation on use of sqlparse 0.4.4 ([#7515](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7515)) - Fix UninstalledPackagesFoundError error message to use correct packages specified path ([#7921](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7921)) - Fix: safe remove of external nodes from nodes.depends_on ([#7924](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7924)) - Fix query comment tests ([#7845](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7845)) - Move project_root contextvar into events.contextvars ([#7937](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7937)) - add access to ModelNodeArgs for external node building ([#7890](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7890)) - Inline query emit proper error message ([#7940](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7940)) - Fix typo in ModelNodeArgs ([#7991](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7991)) - Allow on_schema_change = fail for contracted incremental models ([#7975](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7975)) - Nicer error message if model with enforced contract is missing 'columns' specification ([#7943](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7943)) - include 'v' in ModelNodeArgs.unique_id ([#8039](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8039)) - Fix fail-fast behavior (including retry) ([#7785](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7785)) - Remove `create_metric` as a `SemanticModel.Measure` property because it currently doesn't do anything ([#8064](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8064)) - Remove `VOLUME` declaration within Dockerfile ([#4784](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/4784)) - Fix Dockerfile.test ([#7352](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7352)) - Detect breaking contract changes to versioned models ([#8030](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8030)) - Update DryRunMethod test classes ValidateSqlMethod naming ([#7839](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7839)) - Fix typo in `NonAdditiveDimension` implementation ([#8088](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8088)) - Copy target_schema from config into snapshot node ([#6745](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6745)) - Enable converting deprecation warnings to errors ([#8130](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8130)) - Ensure `warn_error_options` get serialized in `invocation_args_dict` ([#7694](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7694)) - Stop detecting materialization macros based on macro name ([#6231](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6231)) - Improve handling of CTE injection with ephemeral models ([#8213](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8213)) - Fix unbound local variable error in `checked_agg_time_dimension_for_measure` ([#8230](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8230)) - Ensure runtime errors are raised for graph runnable tasks (compile, show, run, etc) ([#8166](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8166)) ### Docs - add note before running integration tests ([dbt-docs/#nothing](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-docs/issues/nothing)) - Fix for column tests not rendering on quoted columns ([dbt-docs/#201](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-docs/issues/201)) - Fix broken links in `CONTRIBUTING.md`. ([dbt-docs/#8018](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-docs/issues/8018)) - Remove static SQL codeblock for metrics ([dbt-docs/#436](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-docs/issues/436)) ### Under the Hood - Update docs link in ContractBreakingChangeError message ([#7366](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7366)) - Reduce memory footprint of cached statement results. ([#7281](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7281)) - Remove noisy parsing events: GenericTestFileParse, MacroFileParse, Note events for static model parsing ([#6671](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6671)) - Update --help text for cache-related parameters ([#7381](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7381)) - Small UX improvements to model versions: Support defining latest_version in unsuffixed file by default. Notify on unpinned ref when a prerelease version is available. ([#7443](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7443)) - Add ability to instantiate Flags class from dict ([#7607](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7607)) - Add other relation to reffable nodes ([#7550](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7550)) - Move node patch method to schema parser patch_node_properties and refactor schema parsing ([#7430](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7430)) - Remove legacy file logger code ([#NA](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/NA)) - Break up integration tests as a short term fix for Windows CI runs ([#7668](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7668)) - Include null checks in utils test base ([#7670](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7670)) - Write pub artifact to log ([#7372](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7372)) - Fix flaky test for --fail-fast ([#7744](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7744)) - Create `add_from_artifact` to populate `state_relation` field of nodes ([#7551](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7551)) - Replace space with underscore in NodeType strings ([#7841](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7841)) - Upgrade to dbt-semantic-interfaces v0.1.0dev5 ([#7853](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7853)) - Refactoring: consolidating public_nodes and nodes ([#7890](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7890)) - Resolve SemanticModel ref is the same way as other refs ([#7822](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7822)) - Move from dbt-semantic-intefaces 0.1.0dev5 to 0.1.0dev7 ([#7898](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7898)) - Don't jinja render packages from dependencies.yml ([#7905](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7905)) - Update mashumaro to 3.8.1 ([#7950](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7950)) - Refactor: entry point for cross-project ref ([#7954](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7954)) - Populate metric input measures ([#7884](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7884)) - Add option to specify partial parse file ([#7911](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7911)) - Add semantic_models to resource counts ([#8077](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8077)) - A way to control maxBytes for a single dbt.log file ([#8199](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8199)) ### Dependencies - Bump mypy from 0.981 to 1.0.1 ([#7027](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/7027)) - Bump ubuntu from 23.04 to 23.10 ([#7675](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/7675)) - ([#7681](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/7681)) - Pin click>=8.1.1,<8.1.4 ([#8050](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/8050)) - Bump `dbt-semantic-interfaces` to `~=0.1.0rc1` ([#8082](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/8082)) - Update pin for click<9 ([#8232](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/8232)) - Add upper bound to sqlparse pin of <0.5 ([#8236](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/8236)) - Support dbt-semantic-interfaces 0.2.0 ([#8250](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/8250)) ### Contributors - [@AndyBys](https://github.com/AndyBys) ([#6980](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6980)) - [@NiallRees](https://github.com/NiallRees) ([#6051](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6051), [#7941](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7941)) - [@alexrosenfeld10](https://github.com/alexrosenfeld10) ([#4784](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/4784)) - [@b-luu](https://github.com/b-luu) ([#7289](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7289)) - [@d-kaneshiro](https://github.com/d-kaneshiro) ([#7664](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7664), [#nothing](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/nothing)) - [@damian3031](https://github.com/damian3031) ([#7845](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7845)) - [@dave-connors-3](https://github.com/dave-connors-3) ([#7738](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7738), [#7915](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7915)) - [@[email protected]](https://github.com/[email protected]) ([#7681](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/7681)) - [@drewbanin](https://github.com/drewbanin) ([#201](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/201)) - 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[@stu-k](https://github.com/stu-k) ([#7299](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7299), [#5476](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/5476), [#7607](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7607), [#7550](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7550), [#7551](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7551)) - [@thomasgjerdekog](https://github.com/thomasgjerdekog) ([#7517](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7517)) - [@tlento](https://github.com/tlento) ([#7839](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7839), [#7839](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7839)) - [@trouze](https://github.com/trouze) ([#7564](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7564)) - [@willbryant](https://github.com/willbryant) ([#7350](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7350)) --- ## Quiara Alegría Hudes (b. 1977) _Thanks to @graciegoheen for writing this biography of Quiara Alegría Hudes—a famous Philadelphian, and the namesake of this dbt Core release._ Quiara Alegría Hudes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright from West Philadelphia. Originally trained as a composter at Yale, her musical influences span two disparate spheres - the classical music education of an Ivy League university, and the Afro-Caribbean music that was a staple of her childhood home. Unable to reconcile the two in traditional composition, she turned to playwriting, a childhood hobby, earning her MFA in playwriting from Brown under the tutelage of Paula Vogel. While at Brown, she began writing _Elliot, a Soldier’s Fugue_ - the first part of her famous trilogy, containing `Water by the Spoonful` which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. After her initial success as a playwright, she collaborated with Lin-Manuel Miranda, writing the book for _In the Heights_ which went on to win the Tony for Best Musical. She since made her debut in film as the screenwriter for the adaptation of _In the Heights_ and the animated movie _Vivo_. As a way to humanize and give visibility to incarcerated authors, Hudes and her cousin founded Emancipated Stories which helps inmates share one-page stories about their life to the rest of the world.