Merge pull request #2817 from zmac12/feature/addDebugQueryMethod

Feature/add debug query method

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -16,10 +16,12 @@
 ### Under the hood
 - Added strategy-specific validation to improve the relevancy of compilation errors for the `timestamp` and `check` snapshot strategies. (([#2787](https:/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2787), [#2791](https:/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2791))
 - Changed rpc test timeouts to avoid locally run test failures ([#2803](https:/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2803),[#2804](https:/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2804))
+- Added a debug_query on the base adapter that will allow plugin authors to create custom debug queries ([#2751](https:/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2751),[#2871](https:/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2817))
 
 Contributors:
 - [@joelluijmes](https:/joelluijmes) ([#2749](https:/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2749), [#2821](https:/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2821))
 - [@kingfink](https:/kingfink) ([#2791](https:/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2791))
+- [@zmac12](https:/zmac12) ([#2871](https:/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2817))
 
 ## dbt 0.18.1 (Release TBD)
 

core/dbt/adapters/base/impl.py

@@ -180,6 +180,9 @@ def clear_transaction(self) -> None:
  def commit_if_has_connection(self) -> None:
  self.connections.commit_if_has_connection()
 
+ def debug_query(self) -> None:
+ self.execute('select 1 as id')
+
  def nice_connection_name(self) -> str:
  conn = self.connections.get_if_exists()
  if conn is None or conn.name is None:

core/dbt/task/debug.py

@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ def attempt_connection(profile):
  adapter = get_adapter(profile)
  try:
  with adapter.connection_named('debug'):
- adapter.execute('select 1 as id')
+ adapter.debug_query()
  except Exception as exc:
  return COULD_NOT_CONNECT_MESSAGE.format(
  err=str(exc),