Descriptions are now deployed in Forward¶

Resource descriptions are now deployed in Forward. When they change, the respective resources are reported as having changes in the output of the tb deploy commands.

If you already had descriptions in your files, we'll report them as changed in the next deployment that you perform. Remember that we now also report the data that will be copied as part of a deployment.

Changes in descriptions will never trigger data migrations, unlike changes in the schema of Data Sources or the queries of Materialized Pipes.

ALTER operations for Materialized Views¶

You can now update the query logic of existing Materialized Views without recreating the entire table by using the new DEPLOYMENT_METHOD alter directive. This approach uses ALTER TABLE ... MODIFY QUERY instead of dropping and recreating the Materialized View, which minimizes data movement and improves deployment performance.

Use DEPLOYMENT_METHOD alter in your materialized Pipe files when you want to update query logic while preserving existing data and minimizing deployment time. This is especially useful for production environments where recreating large datasets would be costly.

Learn more in the Altering Materialized Views documentation.