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Remove the CLI's hard dbt-core dependency (dbt v2 ships as dbt/dbt-oss) - #2360

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Closes #2354

Summary

Removes the CLI's hard dependency on dbt-core, now that dbt v2 ships as the dbt / dbt-oss PyPI packages while dbt-core stays on 1.x (CORE-1477, follow-up to #2333).

Installation examples

dbt Core 1.x — install the CLI with the adapter extra for your warehouse; this pulls in dbt-core 1.x + the adapter (exactly as today):

pip install 'elementary-data[dbt1-snowflake]'   # new, recommended name
pip install 'elementary-data[snowflake]'        # legacy name, still supported
# other warehouses: dbt1-bigquery, dbt1-redshift, dbt1-postgres, dbt1-databricks, ...

dbt v2 (Fusion engine) — no extra and no Python dbt dependency; install the CLI plain and install dbt v2 alongside it whichever way you prefer:

pip install elementary-data
pip install dbt          # full dbt v2 distribution (or: pip install dbt-oss)
# or the standalone binary installer:
curl -fsSL https://public.cdn.getdbt.com/fs/install/install.sh | sh

In both cases edr auto-detects the installation and picks the right runner; if dbt-core 1.x and dbt v2 coexist in one env, dbt v2 wins and DBT_RUNNER_METHOD=api forces dbt-core 1.x.

Changes

  • pyproject: drop the top-level dbt-core = ">=1.8,<3.0.0" requirement. dbt-core 1.x comes through the adapter extras, and dbt v2 needs no Python dependency at all.
  • Extras: add dbt1-<warehouse> aliases (e.g. dbt1-snowflake) for every existing extra, plus dbt1-all. The new names are the ones the docs will use; the old names remain supported indefinitely. All extras (new and legacy) now also explicitly include dbt-core >=1.8,<2.0.0, so they can never resolve a dbt-core 2.x release (the adapters themselves only lower-bound dbt-core).
  • Detection (dbt_installation.py): get_dbt_package_version() → get_dbt2_package_version(), which checks both the dbt and dbt-oss distributions and only counts versions >= 2 (a legacy 1.x dbt metapackage doesn't qualify).
  • Factory (get_dbt_runner_method()):
    • RunnerMethod.API/SUBPROCESS renamed to DBT1_API/DBT1_SUBPROCESS to make it clear they drive dbt-core 1.x; the old names remain as enum aliases (same values), so existing callers and DBT_RUNNER_METHOD=api|subprocess keep working.
    • When dbt-core 1.x and a dbt v2 installation coexist in one env, dbt v2 now takes precedence (per review), with a log explaining how to force dbt-core (DBT_RUNNER_METHOD=api).
    • When neither dbt-core nor a dbt v2 installation is detected but a dbt executable is on PATH (e.g. system-wide/pipx dbt 1.x without pip metadata in the venv), fall back to DBT1_SUBPROCESS as before.
    • When nothing is found at all, raise the new NoDbtInstallationError with actionable install instructions instead of failing later with an obscure subprocess error.

No behavior change for the documented install paths: elementary-data[<warehouse>] users get the exact same resolution as today (unless they also install dbt v2, which now wins).

CI fixes (unrelated breakage that surfaced on this PR):

  • MinIO images (trino/dremio e2e, incl. the hard-coded mc image in external_seeders/dremio.py) moved from Docker Hub to quay.io — the Docker Hub repos became unavailable.
  • Bumped the CI clickhouse-server image 24.3 → 24.8 (LTS): dbt-clickhouse 1.10.3 sends lightweight_deletes_sync=3 as a default connection setting, which is UNKNOWN_SETTING on clickhouse-server < 24.5, failing on the first CREATE DATABASE. Verified 1.10.3 works against 24.8 locally and in CI.
  • Spark job: re-assume the AWS OIDC role after the (slow, up to ~50 min) Spark docker image build — the default 1-hour session was expiring before the end-of-job S3 report upload.

A separate docs PR (base docs, #2361) restructures the install instructions around the two paths (dbt v2: no extra; dbt-core 1.x: dbt1-<warehouse>).

Testing

  • Unit tests extended: no-installation error, metadata-free PATH fallback, dbt v2 precedence on coexistence, dbt/dbt-oss/1.x-metapackage detection matrix, legacy enum alias identity. Full unit suite: 488 passed.
  • Wheel built locally and its METADATA inspected to confirm the extras/aliases and absence of a top-level dbt requirement.
  • dbt-clickhouse root cause reproduced locally: CREATE DATABASE with lightweight_deletes_sync fails on clickhouse-server 24.3 (Code: 115 UNKNOWN_SETTING); succeeds on 24.8.
  • mypy + pre-commit (black/isort/flake8) clean.
  • Full warehouse CI matrix green (all 1.x warehouses + fusion/dbt2 targets).

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I'll fix CI failures and address comments from users with write access. I'll skip comments containing "(aside)".

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Thank you for raising your pull request.
Please make sure to add tests and document all user-facing changes.
You can do this by editing the docs files in this pull request.

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This change updates dbt installation packaging and detection, adjusts runner selection when metadata or binaries are present or missing, adds a dedicated missing-installation error, expands unit coverage for these paths, and switches e2e MinIO images to the quay.io registry.

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dbt installation and runner updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Package dependency and extras layout
pyproject.toml, mypy.ini
The direct dbt-core dependency was removed. The file now documents dbt v2 package installation, adds dbt1-* extras and dbt1-all, and configures mypy to ignore missing imports for optional dbt modules.
dbt v2 package detection
elementary/clients/dbt/dbt_installation.py, tests/unit/clients/dbt_runner/test_factory.py
get_dbt2_package_version() now checks dbt and dbt-oss and only returns versions with major version 2 or higher. The binary availability and binary path helpers now use that result. Unit tests cover both packages, 1.x rejection, missing packages, and the updated binary checks.
Runner fallback and missing-installation handling
elementary/clients/dbt/factory.py, elementary/exceptions/exceptions.py, tests/unit/clients/dbt_runner/test_factory.py
The runner factory now logs when dbt-core metadata and a dbt v2 binary coexist, still prefers the existing dbt-core version-based runner choice, falls back to subprocess when dbt is on PATH, and raises NoDbtInstallationError when no installation is found. Tests cover PATH detection, the new error, and the coexistence log path.

E2E MinIO registry updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
MinIO image source changes
tests/e2e_dbt_project/docker-compose.yml
The Trino and Dremio MinIO server and client images now use quay.io/minio/* instead of minio/*. The pinned versions are unchanged.

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For Spark test runs, the workflow now renews AWS credentials partway through the job. Code from an approved fork pull request can then keep using those credentials for longer than before. The exposure already existed, but it should be contained or explicitly accepted before merging. The dbt dependency and runner changes raise no outstanding concerns.

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dbt_core_version = get_dbt_core_version()

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I'm not sure if we want to do a small rename here too (and below), and replace the term "dbt_core" with "dbt1", wdyt?

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I'd keep dbt_core here: this variable/helper (get_dbt_core_version()) reads the literal version of the installed dbt-core package, which isn't strictly dbt 1.x — the 2.x pre-releases (e.g. 2.0.0b2, which our CI's 2.x target installs) also ship as dbt-core, and the branch right below routes those to the dbt v2 runner. Renaming it to dbt1 would be inaccurate for that case. The dbt-1.x-only concepts (the runner methods) now carry the DBT1_ prefix instead. Happy to rename if you still prefer it though.

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if dbt_package_version is not None and dbt_package_version.major >= 2:
if get_dbt2_package_version() is not None:
return True
return os.path.exists(os.path.expanduser(DEFAULT_DBT_FUSION_PATH))

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Just to make sure - is this check still reliable to verify dbt2 installation?

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Yes for all the supported install paths, with one pre-existing edge case:

  • pip install dbt / pip install dbt-oss → detected via package metadata (the new get_dbt2_package_version(); the >= 2 guard means a legacy 1.x dbt metapackage doesn't count).
  • The official curl installer (install.sh) → covered by the ~/.local/bin/dbt fallback, which is where it places the binary.
  • Custom locations → DBT_FUSION_PATH.

The edge case (unchanged from #2333): the ~/.local/bin/dbt fallback trusts that path without verifying it's actually Fusion, so e.g. a pipx-installed dbt-core 1.x (pipx also links entrypoints into ~/.local/bin) would be a false positive — and since dbt v2 now takes precedence, that env would wrongly route to Dbt2Runner (recoverable via DBT_RUNNER_METHOD=api). If you want, I can harden the fallback by sniffing dbt --version output before trusting it — say the word and I'll add it.

Conversely, a Fusion binary at a non-standard PATH location with no pip metadata isn't detected as dbt v2 (falls back to the 1.x subprocess runner) — that's what DBT_FUSION_PATH is for.

dbt-clickhouse 1.10.3 sends lightweight_deletes_sync as a default
connection setting, which only exists on ClickHouse >= 24.5 (24.3
rejects it with UNKNOWN_SETTING on the first command).

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🟠 Major · Constrain dbt-core in the dbt1 extras. · pyproject.toml:77-108

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Constrain dbt-core in the dbt1 extras.

The four adapter distributions only lower-bound dbt-core, so these extras can install dbt-core 2.x. With DBT_RUNNER_METHOD=api, the factory selects DBT1_API, whose dbt.cli.main import is unavailable in dbt-core 2.x. Without the override, the factory selects DBT2, so the dbt1-* extra no longer provides the stated dbt 1.x behavior.

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+dbt-core = {version = ">=1.8,<2.0.0", optional = true}
 dbt-snowflake = {version = ">=1.8,<2.0.0", optional = true}
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-dbt1-clickhouse = ["dbt-clickhouse"]
+dbt1-clickhouse = ["dbt-core", "dbt-clickhouse"]
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-dbt1-duckdb = ["dbt-duckdb"]
-dbt1-dremio = ["dbt-dremio"]
-dbt1-fabric = ["dbt-fabric"]
+dbt1-duckdb = ["dbt-core", "dbt-duckdb"]
+dbt1-dremio = ["dbt-core", "dbt-dremio"]
+dbt1-fabric = ["dbt-core", "dbt-fabric"]
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-dbt1-all = ["dbt-snowflake", "dbt-bigquery", "dbt-redshift", "dbt-postgres", "dbt-databricks", "dbt-spark", "dbt-athena-community", "pyathena", "dbt-trino", "dbt-clickhouse", "dbt-duckdb", "dbt-dremio", "dbt-fabric", "dbt-sqlserver"]
+dbt1-all = ["dbt-core", "dbt-snowflake", "dbt-bigquery", "dbt-redshift", "dbt-postgres", "dbt-databricks", "dbt-spark", "dbt-athena-community", "pyathena", "dbt-trino", "dbt-clickhouse", "dbt-duckdb", "dbt-dremio", "dbt-fabric", "dbt-sqlserver"]
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Addressed CodeRabbit's outside-diff finding on the extras (bb04074): dbt-core is now an explicit optional dependency pinned to >=1.8,<2.0 and included in every warehouse extra, so the dbt1-* extras (and legacy aliases) can never resolve a future dbt-core 2.x release. In practice today the extras always resolve dbt-core 1.x anyway (2.x only exists as prereleases, which pip won't select by default), but the explicit pin makes the "dbt1" guarantee hold regardless.

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Consider adding Closes #2354 to the PR description so merging this auto-closes the community issue that describes the same packaging problem.

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Review (community — addresses #2354)

Looked at the branch locally and ran py.test -vvv unit/clients/dbt_runner/test_factory.py — 24 passed.

Packaging

  • Base wheel METADATA has no unconditional dbt-core; dbt-core (>=1.8,<2.0.0) only appears behind warehouse / dbt1-* / all extras. That matches the goal in #2354 (co-install with dbt 2.x without pip downgrading the project’s dbt).
  • Explicit dbt-core in every extra (including legacy snowflake, etc.) is the right guard against adapters resolving a future dbt-core 2.x line.

Runtime

  • get_dbt_runner_method() ordering (dbt v2 first, then dbt-core 1.x API/subprocess, PATH fallback, NoDbtInstallationError) is clear and well covered by tests.
  • get_dbt2_package_version() checking both dbt and dbt-oss with major >= 2 addresses the reporter’s Fusion install path.
  • Legacy API / SUBPROCESS enum aliases preserve DBT_RUNNER_METHOD compatibility — good.

CI follow-up (non-blocking)

The Install dbt Fusion step still runs pip uninstall -y dbt-core with a comment that elementary pulls it in. After this PR, pip install "." for fusion targets should not install dbt-core anymore, so the uninstall is redundant and the comment is misleading. Suggest either:

  • drop the uninstall and update the comment in this PR, or
  • a tiny follow-up right after merge.

(CodeRabbit’s AWS refresh note on Spark looks answered; I didn’t re-open it.)

Docs

#2361 lines up with the two-path install story here; left a short note there as well.

Overall: This looks ready to merge from a #2354 perspective once maintainers are happy with review. Adding Closes #2354 to the description would help link the issue.

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Suggested CI cleanup (optional, same PR or follow-up)

After optional dbt-core, the fusion install step no longer needs to uninstall dbt-core:

```diff
- name: Install dbt Fusion
if: inputs.dbt-version == 'fusion'
run: |

  •      # Remove dbt-core (pulled in as a dependency of elementary) so the
    
  •      # environment matches a binary-only Fusion installation, then install
    
  •      # the Fusion binary from the 'dbt' package.
    
  •      # Install the Fusion engine from the 'dbt' package (elementary no longer
    
  •      # pulls in dbt-core for fusion CI installs).
         # Note: without a version pin, 'pip install dbt' resolves to the
         # unrelated legacy dbt Cloud CLI package, hence the explicit 2.x spec.
    
  •      pip uninstall -y dbt-core
         pip install --pre "dbt>=2.0.0a0,<3"
         dbt --version
    

```

Happy to open a tiny follow-up PR after merge if you prefer to keep #2360 focused.

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nice work, waiting for this to get rid of dbtc

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#	tests/e2e_dbt_project/external_seeders/dremio.py
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