PROOF OF CONCEPT - USE AT OWN RISK

Experimental decoupled dbt-external-tables for consideration by dbt-athena-community maintainers. See dbt-labs/dbt-athena#633

Can we implement dbt-external-tables without having to merge into dbt-external-tables?

Usage

A fully working example project provided. See example_project

Add dbt-external-tables

Package provides the target-independent implementation

  - package: dbt-labs/dbt_external_tables
    version: ['>=0.8.7']

Add This Package

Package provides athena-specific implementation

  - git: https://github.com/brabster/dbt-athena-external-tables.git
    revision: main

Override Macro Search Order in Project

dispatch:
  - macro_namespace: dbt_external_tables
    search_order: [dbt_athena_external_tables, dbt_external_tables]

Follow Instructions for dbt-external-tables