Fix!: Always recreate materialized view #4908
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Materialized views in engines like BigQuery and Snowflake are invalidated if the underlying table(s) are replaced. Toy repro scenario:
This flow can be mirrored in the following toy SQLMesh project:
Running the very first plan will yield the following error in either engine, e.g:
This is because, during the plan:
t1
is created as a dry runt2
is created as a dry runt1
is recreated/replaced as part of theFULL
insertion strategyViewStrategy
it is not recreatedThis PR alters (4) such that any materialized view with upstream dependencies is recreated from scratch in order to restore correctness.