Fix: Include column types in Databricks materialized views with comments#5578
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izeigerman merged 3 commits intoSQLMesh:mainfrom Dec 2, 2025
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Databricks requires column types to be specified when adding column comments in CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW statements. Without the column types, the comments are silently ignored. This change adds a Databricks-specific override of _build_column_defs that forces column types to be included when creating views with column descriptions.
Verifies that column types are included in CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW statements when column comments are present, as required by Databricks.
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izeigerman
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Nov 7, 2025
| # in CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW statements. Override is_view to False to force | ||
| # column types to be included when comments are present. | ||
| if is_view and column_descriptions: | ||
| engine_supports_schema_comments = self.COMMENT_CREATION_VIEW.supports_schema_def |
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Do we even need this check here provided that we know that this will always be true for Databricks?
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Hmm, yeah you are correct. I've removed the inner condition
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Summary
type definitions
statements when column comments are present
Technical Details
The fix overrides the
is_viewparameter toFalsewhen building column definitions formaterialized views that have column comments. This ensures the base class includes column types
in the schema definition, which Databricks requires for this scenario.
Let me know if we should take do another approach for this.