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[Feature] Remove dbt-postgres dependency #811

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mikealfare opened this issue May 3, 2024 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #840
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[Feature] Remove dbt-postgres dependency #811

mikealfare opened this issue May 3, 2024 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #840
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@mikealfare
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mikealfare commented May 3, 2024

Describe the feature

dbt-redshift depends on dbt-postgres for 8 macros. These are all "pass-through" macros, e.g.:

{% macro redshift__create_schema(relation) -%}
  {{ postgres__create_schema(relation) }}
{% endmacro %}

We can eliminate the dependency on dbt-postgres through a combination of vendoring the dbt-postgres macros into dbt-redshift and simply relying on the default in dbt-adapters.

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  • remove references to dbt-postgres macros (currently 7 instances in adapters.sql and 1 in snapshot_merge.sql)
  • remove the dependency in adapters.redshift.__init__.py
  • remove reference to dbt-postgres in tests (currently 1 in test_macros.py, 1 in test_query_comment.py, and 1 comment in unit/utils.py)
  • remove dependency in setup.py and dev-requirements.txt
  • update docs to reflect that postgres macros will no longer be available to use in custom macros; include the workaround of simply replacing postgres__ with redshift__ to get the new macro
@mikealfare mikealfare added enhancement New feature or request triage tech_debt and removed enhancement New feature or request triage labels May 3, 2024
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Need to communicate that this would break any redshift user who is depending on overwriting a postgres macro.

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padbk commented May 17, 2024

This change would be much appreciated.

dbt-postgres 1.8.0 is creating issues for those running Linux due to a change in Psycopg2 dependencies, see dbt-labs/dbt-postgres#96

dbt-redshift does not need Psycopg2 anymore, so removing this dependency is a much needed simplfication. 🙏

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We've identified a blocker for this work:

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