Support "unaliasing" for the `star` macro when `relation_alias` is set
bmvi-kinver opened this issue · 2 comments
Describe the feature
I want to be able to "unalias" column names when relation_alias
is specified. For example, if I have some relation users
that has columns id
and name
, the following code
select
{{
dbt_utils.star(
from=ref("users"),
relation_alias="u"
)
}}
from {{ ref("users") }} u
produces a model model having columns u.id
and u.name
. I'd like to specify, somehow, that I want to keep the original column names.
Describe alternatives you've considered
There IS an existing solution to this problem. If I set suffix=" "
(a single space), I get the behavior I desire, but it feels really hacky and I wouldn't count on this to work for future releases.
Who will this benefit?
Anyone who wants to keep the original column names from some relation in a join.
Are you interested in contributing this feature?
Yes! This should be fairly easy to implement, but I'm not sure what the desired implementation looks like.
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