This release fixes issues for SREs watching stability and regressions.
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AI summaryReliability fixes suppress false‑positive undefined column refs and broken ref warnings on source‑only Snowflake runs.
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Reliability fixes for the two deterministic query-fail checks (undefined_column_refs, broken_refs) on real Snowflake and package-heavy projects. A source-only run (no compiled manifest) used to emit whole classes of false positive at confidence: high. Those classes are now suppressed by construction.
undefined_column_refs:
- SQL date-part keywords inside
DATEADD,DATEDIFF,TIMEADD, andDATE_TRUNC(day,month,quarter,week,hour,minute, and the rest) are unit tokens, not column references. They are never flagged. UNPIVOT(value FOR name IN (...))value and name outputs are recognized as produced columns.- Lateral table functions (
SPLIT_TO_TABLE,FLATTEN) expose system output columns (value,index,seq, ...) that are no longer read as undefined. fivetran_utils.fill_staging_columns,get_columns_in_relation, andapply_source_relationare treated as macro-generated column sets. Without a compiled manifest the model is skipped, the same waydbt_utils.staralready was.- A
ref()resolves to its model, never a sibling CTE of the same name. A Jinja-stripped expression in a CTE select list now marks that CTE's shape unresolvable, so downstream scopes are skipped rather than checked against a placeholder column.
broken_refs:
- When
packages.ymlordependencies.ymlis declared but the dependencies are not installed (dbt_packages/absent) and no compiled manifest exists, unresolved refs are package models or user-supplied extension points, not broken refs. They move toissues.broken_refs_suppressed_no_depsand synthesis emits one aggregate "rundbt deps" notice. New output fieldspackages_unresolvedandpackages_unresolved_ref_count.
Verified on eight public projects: GitLab undefined_column_refs 31 to 0 and broken_refs 4 to 0, Stripe 218 to 0, Tuva broken_refs 327 to 0, with the genuine messy-jaffle-shop has_refund query-fail still firing. New regression fixture test-fixtures/sql-edge-cases/ and scripts/tests/test_undefined_column_refs.py pin every blind spot.
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