Greenplum setup

• Maintained by: Community
• Authors: Mark Poroshin, Dmitry Bevz
• GitHub repo: markporoshin/dbt-greenplum
• PyPI package: dbt-greenplum
• Slack channel: n/a
• Supported dbt Core version: v1.0.0 and newer
• dbt Cloud support: Not Supported
• Minimum data platform version: Greenplum 6.0

Installing dbt-greenplum

Use pip to install the adapter. Before 1.8, installing the adapter would automatically install dbt-core and any additional dependencies. Beginning in 1.8, installing an adapter does not automatically install dbt-core. This is because adapters and dbt Core versions have been decoupled from each other so we no longer want to overwrite existing dbt-core installations. Use the following command for installation:

Configuring dbt-greenplum

For Greenplum-specific configuration, please refer to Greenplum configs.

For further (and more likely up-to-date) info, see the README

Profile Configuration

Greenplum targets should be set up using the following configuration in your profiles.yml file.

~/.dbt/profiles.yml

company-name:
  target: dev
  outputs:
    dev:
      type: greenplum
      host: [hostname]
      user: [username]
      password: [password]
      port: [port]
      dbname: [database name]
      schema: [dbt schema]
      threads: [1 or more]
      keepalives_idle: 0 # default 0, indicating the system default. See below
      connect_timeout: 10 # default 10 seconds
      search_path: [optional, override the default postgres search_path]
      role: [optional, set the role dbt assumes when executing queries]
      sslmode: [optional, set the sslmode used to connect to the database]

Notes

This adapter strongly depends on dbt-postgres, so you can read more about configurations here Profile Setup