Make seeds ref'able, provide for seed configuration #668
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Fixes:
This PR makes seed CSVs ref'able. Further, they can now be configured with a
seeds
dict in thedbt_project.yml
file (with the same semantics asmodels:
)The semantics here are a little funny -- seed files can be ref'd, but they are not exactly a part of the graph. As such, they are not created by
dbt run
, anddbt run --models +some_model
will not invoke any upstream seed files.We could make seed files work exactly like models, but there's probably not a ton of merit to running them with every invocation of
dbt run
.Regarding configuration, the only sensible config options are:
In practice, this looks like