support snapshot option 'invalidate_hard_deletes' #20
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This PR:
invalidate_hard_deletes
which marks records missing in the source as deleted in the snapshotTests
I tested snapshots manually both with and without the new configuration option
invalidate_hard_deletes
enabled.Step 0: One row (

id = 1
) is present in the sourceStep 1: A second row (

id = 2
) is present in the sourceStep 2: The first row (

id = 1
) is deleted in the source. Thus, valid_to is set by thedbt snapshot
runStep 3: The first row (

id = 1
) appears again in the source. Thus, it is added to the snapshot as a valid rowStep 4: The second row (

id = 2
) changes its value toval = 'v2'
. Thus, the old record is is marked as valid_until und a new row for the current value is appended to the snapshot.Thus it has been demonstrated that this PR satisfies the following cases:
Background
This PR aims to follow the code from dbt-core as seen here and here