As generating docs through dbt docs generate often takes a while, it is less economical to use catalog.json than manifest.json that gets created with every compile (dbt compile or as a part of dbt run or dbt docs generate). This could be done because we don't need information about the current state of database, only what's documented in dbt, because we can only create refs to these tables anyway.
Tested by running the code – resulted in the same output as the code on main.
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As generating docs through
dbt docs generateoften takes a while, it is less economical to usecatalog.jsonthanmanifest.jsonthat gets created with every compile (dbt compileor as a part ofdbt runordbt docs generate). This could be done because we don't need information about the current state of database, only what's documented in dbt, because we can only create refs to these tables anyway.Tested by running the code – resulted in the same output as the code on
main.