BigQuery Materialized View will be recreated each time dataform project is run

[p13rr0m]

BigQuery Materialized View Issue

We have a very large table in BigQuery and have created a filtered, smaller materialized table for analysts. Each day new data gets added to the large table and subsequently to the small view as well.

We are using the dataform CLI to run the models. However, even though we haven't changed the materialized view, every time we run the dataform project, the materialized view will be recreated and we have to process the whole data of the large table again.

We would expect that the materialized view keeps the previously processed data.

This is how we create the materialized view:

config { 
  type: "view", 
  materialized: true,
  bigquery: {
    additionalOptions: {
        enable_refresh: "false"
    },
    partitionBy: "DATE(ingestion_time)",
    clusterBy: ["column_a"]
  }
}
SELECT
    *
FROM
    ${ref("large_table")}
WHERE
    column_b

Thanks for your help!

[justinaugust]

Agreed, this somewhat defeats the purpose of the materialized view.
Would be great to see some smart checking ie:

• Does the same materialized view / schema / partition / cluster exist? If so do not recreate.