For csv
format of unit testing, empty strings (""
) and "null"
both convert to SQL NULL
#5476
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dbt-labs/dbt-core#9881
🌶️ Hot take, we might consider closing this issue as just a special case of #4867 (which we should resolve!).
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Not sure the best page(s). Likely one or more of the following:
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The
csv
format now works exactly the same as dbt seeds (which are only defined using CSV), so maybe we don't actually need to make any changes as a result of this PR!More detail
We'd just need to check if there's anywhere in our unit testing docs that we mention blank / empty string values (
""
).Overall, we should really just implement #4867 and make sure it covers all of these cases:
csv
format for unit testsdict
format for unit testssql
format for unit testscsv
format for unit testsdict
format for unit testssql
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