[Feature] dbt seeds - STRING as default for the entire project

[a51001k]

Is this your first time submitting a feature request?

• I have read the expectations for open source contributors
• I have searched the existing issues, and I could not find an existing issue for this feature
• I am requesting a straightforward extension of existing dbt functionality, rather than a Big Idea better suited to a discussion

Describe the feature

dbt seeds seemingly automatically decides data types before inserting data into for example Snowflake.

In our use-case it would be helpful if it was possible to set string as default for the entire dbt project.

That way our pipelines would be more predictable, and we can ourselves change string into number/boolean/date etc. in a staging-layer.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Hardcoding every single column into string. This is a pain.

Who will this benefit?

Everyone who wants to have predictable dbt seeds and treat seeds as an ingest.

Are you interested in contributing this feature?

No response

Anything else?

No response

[kmarq]

Tried to override this behavior, but it had numerous challenges to do. I'd definitely appreciate this as an option. It allows loading seed files without defining each and every column in a yaml if all you want is for it to load as strings.
Even being able to default to String on a per seed file basis that'd be a big improvement.