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dbt-greenplum

The dbt-greenplum package contains the code enabling dbt to work with Greenplum. This adapter based on postgres-adapter with a bit difference for a greenplum specific features

Installation

Easiest way to start use dbt-greenplum is to install it using pip pip install dbt-greenplum==<version>

Where <version> is same as your dbt version

Available versions:

• 0.19.2
• 1.0.4
• 1.2.0
• 1.4.0
• 1.5.0

Supported Features

You can specify following settings:

• Storage type
  • heap
  • appendoptimized
• Distribution
  • distributed randomly by defaut
  • distributed by (column, [ ... ] ) by setting up distributed_by parameter in the model config
  • distributed replicated by setting up distributed_replicated=true parameter in the model config
• Table orientation
  • orientation=colum by default
  • orientation=row by setting up orientation parameter in row in the model config
• Compress type, level and blocksize with default values

  compresstype=ZLIB,
  compresslevel=1,
  blocksize=32768

  You can also specify blocksize, compresstype, compresslevel in the model config

• appendoptimized preference by default is true, also you can override it by setting up appendoptimized field in the model config
• Partitions (see "Partition" chapter below)
• Additional incremental strategy
  • truncate-insert by setting up incremental_strategy="truncate+insert" parameter in the model config or +incremental_strategy: truncate_insert in the dbt_project.yml

Heap table example

To create heap table set appendoptimized parameter value to false

{{
   config(
      ...
      materialized='table',
      appendoptimized=false
      ...
   )
}}

select 1 as "id"

will produce following SQL code

create  table "<db_name>"."<schema_name>"."<table_name>"
with (
   appendoptimized=false
) as (
   select 1 as "id"
)
DISTRIBUTED RANDOMLY;

Appendoptimized table example

You can use appendopimized or appendonly(legacy) to create appendoptimized table

Such model definition

{{
    config(
        materialized='table',
        distributed_by='id',
        appendoptimized=true,
        orientation='column',
        compresstype='ZLIB',
        compresslevel=1,
        blocksize=32768
    )
}}

with source_data as (

    select 1 as id
    union all
    select null as id

)

select *
from source_data

will produce following sql code

create  table "dvault"."dv"."my_first_dbt_model__dbt_tmp"
with (
    appendoptimized=true,
    blocksize=32768,
    orientation=column,
    compresstype=ZLIB,
    compresslevel=1
)
as (
  with source_data as (
      select 1 as id
      union all
      select null as id
    )
  select *
  from source_data
)  
distributed by (id);

alter table "dvault"."dv"."my_first_dbt_model__dbt_tmp" rename to "my_first_dbt_model";

Partitions

Greenplum does not support partitions with create table as construction, so you need to build model in two steps

• create table schema
• insert data

To implement partitions into you dbt-model you need to specify on of the following config parameters:

• fields_string - definition of columns name, type and constraints
• one of following way to configure partitions
  • raw_partition by default
  • partition_type, partition_column, partition_spec
  • partition_type, partition_column, partition_start, partition_end, partition_every
  • partition_type, partition_column, partition_values
• default_partition_name - name of default partition 'other' by default

Let consider examples of definition model with partitions

• using raw_partition parameter

  {% set fields_string %}
      id int4 null,
      incomingdate timestamp NULL
  {% endset %}
  
  {% set raw_partition %}
     PARTITION BY RANGE (incomingdate)
     (
         START ('2021-01-01'::timestamp) INCLUSIVE
         END ('2023-01-01'::timestamp) EXCLUSIVE
         EVERY (INTERVAL '1 day'),
         DEFAULT PARTITION extra
     );
  {% endset %}
  
  {{
     config(
         materialized='table',
         distributed_by='id',
         appendoptimized=true,
         orientation='column',
         compresstype='ZLIB',
         compresslevel=1,
         blocksize=32768,
         fields_string=fields_string,
         raw_partition=raw_partition,
         default_partition_name='other_data'
     )
  }}
  
  with source_data as (
  
     select
         1 as id,
         '2022-02-22'::timestamp as incomingdate
     union all
     select
         null as id,
         '2022-02-25'::timestamp as incomingdate
  )
  select *
  from source_data

  will produce following sql code

  create table if not exists "database"."schema"."my_first_dbt_model__dbt_tmp" (
     id int4 null,
     incomingdate timestamp NULL
  )
  with (
     appendoptimized=true,
     blocksize=32768,
     orientation=column,
     compresstype=ZLIB,
     compresslevel=1
  )
  DISTRIBUTED BY (id)
  PARTITION BY RANGE (incomingdate)
  (
     START ('2021-01-01'::timestamp) INCLUSIVE
     END ('2023-01-01'::timestamp) EXCLUSIVE
     EVERY (INTERVAL '1 day'),
     DEFAULT PARTITION extra
  );
  
  insert into "database"."schema"."my_first_dbt_model__dbt_tmp" (
     with source_data as (
  
         select
             1 as id,
             '2022-02-22'::timestamp as incomingdate
         union all
         select
             null as id,
             '2022-02-25'::timestamp as incomingdate
     )
     select *
     from source_data
  );
  alter table "dvault"."dv"."my_first_dbt_model" rename to "my_first_dbt_model__dbt_backup";
  drop table if exists "dvault"."dv"."my_first_dbt_model__dbt_backup" cascade;
  alter table "database"."schema"."my_first_dbt_model__dbt_tmp" rename to "my_first_dbt_model";

• Same result you can get using partition_type, partition_column, partition_spec parameters

  {% set fields_string %}
     id int4 null,
     incomingdate timestamp NULL
  {% endset %}
  
  {%- set partition_type = 'RANGE' -%}
  {%- set partition_column = 'incomingdate' -%}
  {% set partition_spec %}
     START ('2021-01-01'::timestamp) INCLUSIVE
     END ('2023-01-01'::timestamp) EXCLUSIVE
     EVERY (INTERVAL '1 day'),
     DEFAULT PARTITION extra
  {% endset %}
  
  {{
     config(
         materialized='table',
         distributed_by='id',
         appendoptimized=true,
         orientation='column',
         compresstype='ZLIB',
         compresslevel=1,
         blocksize=32768,
         fields_string=fields_string,
         partition_type=partition_type,
         partition_column=partition_column,
         partition_spec=partition_spec,
         default_partition_name='other_data'
     )
  }}
  
  with source_data as (
  
     select
         1 as id,
         '2022-02-22'::timestamp as incomingdate
     union all
     select
         null as id,
         '2022-02-25'::timestamp as incomingdate
  )
  select *
  from source_data

• also, you can use third way

  {% set fields_string %}
     id int4 null,
     incomingdate timestamp NULL
  {% endset %}
  
  {%- set partition_type = 'RANGE' -%}
  {%- set partition_column = 'incomingdate' -%}
  {%- set partition_start = "'2021-01-01'::timestamp" -%}
  {%- set partition_end = "'2022-01-01'::timestamp" -%}
  {%- set partition_every = '1 day' -%}
  
  {{
     config(
         materialized='table',
         distributed_by='id',
         appendoptimized=true,
         orientation='column',
         compresstype='ZLIB',
         compresslevel=1,
         blocksize=32768,
         fields_string=fields_string,
         partition_type=partition_type,
         partition_column=partition_column,
         partition_start=partition_start,
         partition_end=partition_end,
         partition_every=partition_every,
         default_partition_name='other_data'
     )
  }}
  
  with source_data as (
  
     select
         1 as id,
         '2022-02-22'::timestamp as incomingdate
     union all
     select
         null as id,
         '2022-02-25'::timestamp as incomingdate
  )
  select *
  from source_data

• example of partition_type LIST is coming soon

Table partition hints

Too check generate sql script use -d option: dbt -d run <...> -m <models>

If you want implement complex partition logic with subpartition or something else use raw_partition parameter

Truncate+insert incremental strategy

You can use this incremental strategy to safely reload models without cascade dropping dependent objects due to Greenplum's transactional TRUNCATE operation realization

Model definition example:

{{
   config(
      ...
      materialized='incremental',
      incremental_strategy='truncate+insert',
      ...
   )
}}

select *
from source_data

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