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[AP-591] Use SHOW SCHEMAS|TABLES|COLUMNS instead of INFORMATION_SCHEMA #67
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Summary
This PR refactoring the code to use
SHOW SCHEMAS|TABLES|COLUMNS
queries instead ofINFORMATION_SCHEMA
. Information schema queries are slow in general and can cause failing parallel running taps withsnowflake.connector.errors.ProgrammingError: 090030 (22000): Information schema query returned too much data. Please repeat query with more selective predicates.
This PR is also getting rid of
PIPELINEWISE.COLUMNS
table because theSHOW
queries basically provide the same information with good performance.Solution
After some research it turns out this is a generic problem in snowflake
INFORMATION_SCHEMA
and other projects have similar issues as well. For example DBT:show schemas
instead of selecting from information_schema.schemata on Snowflake dbt-labs/dbt-core#2166Pros:
SHOW SCHEMAS|TABLES|COLUMNS
will not queue, whereas the select statement can queueSHOW SCHEMAS|TABLES|COLUMNS
does not require a running warehouseSHOW SCHEMAS|TABLES|COLUMNS
appears to be strictly faster than the information_schema alternativeCons:
SHOW SCHEMAS|TABLES|COLUMNS
returns max 10k rows.If a
SHOW
query returns more than 9999 records then an exception will be raised. This is a limitation ofSHOW COLUMNS
but 10k rows should be enough for hundreds of average length tables. If 10k columns not enough then we can still queryINFORMATION_SCHEMA
as a fallback method but this is not in scope of this PR