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Description

Fixes #5793.

Ensures that all snapshots that are representative but not deployable (they contain the same data as prod, but can never become prod) are just pass through views of the production physical table. A by-product of this is that they can never have any missing intervals.

Test Plan

  • Expansion of existing unit tests for changed logic.
  • Run through of INDIRECT_BREAKING_CHANGES snapshots to prove idempotence.
    • Run plan:
      1. sqlmesh init

        Option 1 throughout - basic DuckDB implementation with the demo models.

      2. sqlmesh plan

      3. Add 'ABC' AS extra_column to incremental_model.sql

      4. sqlmesh plan indirect_non_breaking

      5. sqlmesh run

      6. sqlmesh run indirect_non_breaking

      7. sqlmesh fetchdf "UPDATE sqlmesh._intervals SET end_ts = end_ts - 86400000, start_ts = start_ts - 86400000, last_altered_ts = last_altered_ts - 86400000"

        86400000 is the number of milliseconds in a day (246060*1000)

      8. sqlmesh run indirect_non_breaking

      9. sqlmesh run indirect_non_breaking

        Previously this would result in the intervals being re-run, it now correctly does nothing.

      10. Plan a new model named extra_model as a SELECT * FROM sqlmesh_example.full_model and confirm that it is selecting from the full_model physical model without the __dev extension.

    • Comments:
      • Model Name Change Type Deployability Representativeness Version Used In indirect_non_breaking
        seed_model None True True Same as prod
        incremental_model NonBreaking True True Separate physical model
        full_model IndirectNonBreaking False True Prod physical model
      • full_model uses the non-__dev physical model, and has no missing intervals.
  • Run through of the above plan, but with vde_mode: dev_only.
  • Ensure that changes flagged as INDIRECT_NON_BREAKING with an audit change still run the audit.
  • Investigate dev restatement of paused INDIRECT_NON_BREAKING models.

Checklist

  • I have run make style and fixed any issues
  • I have added tests for my changes (if applicable)
  • All existing tests pass (make fast-test)
  • My commits are signed off (git commit -s) per the DCO

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Corrected missing-interval calculations for representative snapshots: deployable snapshots use production intervals, while representative snapshots that aren’t deployable no longer report missing intervals.
    • Updated planning and scheduling so non-deployable representative snapshots are excluded from physical schema creation, backfill, and missing-interval results.
    • Improved environment promotion behavior for forward-only and non-breaking snapshots, including which table the environment view uses.
    • Updated plan results for forward-only snapshots so missing intervals differ appropriately between development and production environments.

…any intervals and are a pure pass-through of prod.

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@davem-bis -- Took a peak at this: looks like you're making the change a level down, so it affects plan as well. That would explain your comment about why in "dev_only" mode you're getting empty tables (probably because of the return []).

So we're seeing another bug that creates and backfills a __dev table during the plan as well. And by fixing the first bug, this __dev table is then not used and wasted compute, from what I understand. So we're kind of peeling back an onion here.

My recommendation:

  1. In sqlmesh/core/scheduler.py in merged_missing_intervals, the function not the method, we filter out the snapshots. This change should propagate to the scheduler and to plan. So something like this:
snapshots_to_intervals = compute_interval_params(          # NEW
    snapshots,
    start=start or earliest_start_date(snapshots),
    end=end or now_timestamp(),
    deployability_index=deployability_index,
    execution_time=execution_time or now_timestamp(),
    restatements=restatements,
    start_override_per_model=start_override_per_model,
    end_override_per_model=end_override_per_model,
    ignore_cron=ignore_cron,
    end_bounded=end_bounded,
)
deployability_index = deployability_index or DeployabilityIndex.all_deployable()  # NEW
return {                                                   # NEW
    s: intervals                                           # NEW
    for s, intervals in snapshots_to_intervals.items()     # NEW
    if not (                                               # NEW
        deployability_index.is_representative(s)           # NEW
        and not deployability_index.is_deployable(s)       # NEW
    )                                                      # NEW
}  
  1. In sqlmesh/core/plan/stage.py in _get_snapshots_to_create / _should_create -- we check the deployability index here as well to avoid creating a __dev table if it is_representative. You're already doing this.

I think its your changes to core/snapshot/definition.py that are giving you trouble here. You're overriding logic too early. Appreciate you trying to solve both issues in one pass!

…o the missing interval check.

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Physical-layer eligibility now determines whether snapshots contribute missing intervals or are selected for physical creation and backfill. Tests cover interval behavior, promotion, plan stages, catalog view counts, and a longer subprocess timeout.

Changes: Snapshot Deployability and Interval Handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Eligibility and missing-interval semantics
sqlmesh/core/snapshot/definition.py, tests/core/test_snapshot.py, tests/core/test_snapshot_evaluator.py, tests/core/integration/test_forward_only.py
DeployabilityIndex now exposes physical-layer eligibility. Missing-interval calculations skip snapshots that are representative but not deployable. Tests cover eligibility, interval selection, promotion, and forward-only plans.
Deployability-aware plan selection
sqlmesh/core/plan/stages.py, sqlmesh/core/scheduler.py, tests/core/test_plan_stages.py
Plan-stage and scheduler selection exclude snapshots that are ineligible for the physical layer. The plan-stage test checks that an indirectly non-breaking view is excluded from physical schema creation and backfill.

Environment Catalog View Checks

Layer / File(s) Summary
Environment catalog view counts
tests/core/integration/test_config.py
The integration test checks user-view counts in default and non-default catalogs across environment plans and invalidation.

Subprocess Test Timeout

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bounded subprocess timeout
tests/utils/test_concurrency.py
The subprocess timeout increases from 8 to 16 seconds.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: mday-io

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 7bc1f

A requested dev restatement may schedule no backfill for an affected snapshot. Resolve that behavior before merging unless it is explicitly accepted.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 7bc1f

Development processing is narrowed, but the changed classification can also move dependent production work ahead of its upstream work. That creates a potential partial-update and recovery problem. No new authorization bypass was established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: A paused INDIRECT_NON_BREAKING child retaining production intervals is now representative even when its paused forward-only parent is not. If both require additional backfill, production planning can place the child before promotion and its parent afterward; the base kept this child in the later group. Each stage supplies its own interval map, so the scheduler has no evaluation dependency on the later parent. Successful child execution can therefore record production completion against stale or incomplete upstream data before the parent succeeds. A later failure may leave that completion state behind for recovery. This conditional ordering and failure-containment risk is inferred from source, not runtime-reproduced.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The affected state includes selected environment views, their production-side data sources, dependent backfills and interval-completion metadata. The ordering concern can affect production outputs, not only disposable development tables. Effective tenant separation and warehouse privilege scope were not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The physical-creation change adds an early rejection before the existing model, backfill-selection and promotion checks. It cannot itself expand the creation set. Eligibility is calculated from snapshot identity and deployment state rather than an authentication or authorization decision.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The production ordering concern crosses a recovery boundary: successful evaluation records an interval before later stages finish. If downstream work runs against an upstream snapshot assigned to a later stage, that completion record can survive a subsequent failure without proving dependency-consistent output.
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Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: consistent production physical-table use for representative but non-deployable snapshots.
Linked Issues check Passed Objective [#5793] is met. DeployabilityIndex.is_eligible_for_physical_layer identifies representative, non-deployable snapshots. Snapshot.missing_intervals and module-level missing_intervals ski…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The production changes stay within [#5793]. They align physical-layer eligibility, missing-interval checks, plan-stage creation, and representative view behavior. The added tests verify these changes.…
Description check Passed The description links issue #5793 and states the goal: representative but non-deployable snapshots become pass-through views of the production physical table, with no missing intervals. The Test Plan …
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Explanation

Objective [#5793] is met. DeployabilityIndex.is_eligible_for_physical_layer identifies representative, non-deployable snapshots. Snapshot.missing_intervals and module-level missing_intervals skip those snapshots. Scheduler.merged_missing_intervals applies the same eligibility safeguard. Plan stages do not create or backfill a physical table for those snapshots. Existing representative snapshots continue to use the production physical table through the representative view path. The added tests cover missing intervals, deployability, plan stages, promotion targets, and forward-only behavior. Repeated runs therefore have no intervals to backfill or record in the development ledger.

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The production changes stay within [#5793]. They align physical-layer eligibility, missing-interval checks, plan-stage creation, and representative view behavior. The added tests verify these changes. The catalog-count and forward-only test updates cover affected view and deployability behavior. The concurrency timeout change is isolated to a test utility and does not change product behavior; the available evidence does not establish a substantive unrelated scope change.

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The description links issue #5793 and states the goal: representative but non-deployable snapshots become pass-through views of the production physical table, with no missing intervals. The Test Plan is detailed. It has a manual reproduction walkthrough, a table of model deployability and representativeness, and a checked item for the vde_mode: dev_only run. The Checklist matches the template items. Two Test Plan items are unchecked: audit behavior for INDIRECT_NON_BREAKING changes, and dev restatement of paused INDIRECT_NON_BREAKING models. The description also omits a plain-language Description of the code changes beyond the one-line summary. The template sections are all present, so the description is mostly complete.

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Hi @cmgoffena13 - sorry for the massive delay but I'm picking this up again.

I'm still hitting a sticking point when VDE mode is dev_only, specifically that the table is empty as an empty physical table is created. I can see two main options to this:

  1. The virtual layer points at a new physical table that is cloned from the production table, or;
  2. The virtual layer points directly at the production table (presumably by expanding the logic in sqlmesh/core/snapshot/definition.py::475).

Option 2. is easiest to implement, but I don't think that pattern is used elsewhere (the physical tables look to be cloned from the production tables in this scenario by the looks of it) I stand corrected that's exactly what happens when you specify --include-unmodified.

Option 1. 1 would break if it ever tried to clone something that wasn't a table, but I believe that this scenario can only occur for tables (as opposed to a view or ephemeral) so that shouldn't be an issue.

I'm going to implement option 2 as it matches existing behaviour, but please shout if you think there's something I've missed.

…ly VDE mode.

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1053-1056: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Extract the repeated "representative but not deployable" predicate into one helper.

The same condition now appears in four places:

  • Snapshot.missing_intervals (this location)
  • the module-level missing_intervals (Lines 2082-2085)
  • PlanStagesBuilder._get_snapshots_to_create in sqlmesh/core/plan/stages.py
  • Scheduler.merged_missing_intervals in sqlmesh/core/scheduler.py

Four copies can drift apart. Add one method on DeployabilityIndex and call it from each site.

The new filter in Scheduler.merged_missing_intervals is also redundant. missing_intervals already drops these snapshots before the filter runs, so the filter has no effect on that result. Remove it, or keep it only as a documented safeguard.

♻️ Proposed helper
+    def is_representative_only(self, snapshot: SnapshotIdLike) -> bool:
+        """True if the snapshot reads from the prod physical table but can never be deployed from this evaluation."""
+        return self.is_representative(snapshot) and not self.is_deployable(snapshot)
-        if deployability_index.is_representative(self) and not deployability_index.is_deployable(
-            self
-        ):
+        if deployability_index.is_representative_only(self):
             return []
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Review comment at @sqlmesh/core/snapshot/definition.py around lines 1053 - 1056:
Extract the representative-but-not-deployable check into a method on
DeployabilityIndex, then use it in Snapshot.missing_intervals, the module-level
missing_intervals, and PlanStagesBuilder._get_snapshots_to_create. Remove the
redundant filter in Scheduler.merged_missing_intervals because missing_intervals
already excludes these snapshots.
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1758-1758: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Make this test assert the representative non-deployable exclusion.

The current setup bypasses the relevant deployability classification. The current assertions do not detect removal of the filter.

Set is_dev=True, give snapshot_e an interval covering the plan range, and assert that it is absent from the physical schema creation stage and every backfill stage. Update the stage count and order for the dev plan.

🧪 Suggested test correction
-        is_dev=False,
+        is_dev=True,
+    snapshot_e.intervals = [
+        (to_timestamp("2023-01-01"), to_timestamp("2023-01-02"))
+    ]
-    assert len(stages) == 7
+    assert len(stages) == 6
-    assert isinstance(stages[4], BackfillStage)
-    assert isinstance(stages[5], VirtualLayerUpdateStage)
-    assert isinstance(stages[6], FinalizeEnvironmentStage)
+    assert isinstance(stages[4], VirtualLayerUpdateStage)
+    assert isinstance(stages[5], FinalizeEnvironmentStage)
-    ## Verify that indirect non breaking change does not trigger a backfill
-    assert stages[2].selected_snapshot_ids == {snapshot_d.snapshot_id}
+    schema_stage = next(
+        stage for stage in stages if isinstance(stage, PhysicalLayerSchemaCreationStage)
+    )
+    assert snapshot_e.snapshot_id not in {
+        snapshot.snapshot_id for snapshot in schema_stage.snapshots
+    }
+    for stage in stages:
+        if isinstance(stage, BackfillStage):
+            assert snapshot_e not in stage.snapshot_to_intervals
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Review comment at @tests/core/test_plan_stages.py at line 1758:
Update the dev-plan test to exercise deployability filtering: set `is_dev=True`
and give `snapshot_e` an interval covering the plan range. Assert `snapshot_e`
is absent from the `PhysicalLayerSchemaCreationStage` snapshots and every
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- Line 304: Update the test containing the process-wide sqlmesh logger level
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Review comments at @sqlmesh/core/snapshot/definition.py:
- Around line 1053-1056: Extract the representative-but-not-deployable check
into a method on DeployabilityIndex, then use it in Snapshot.missing_intervals,
the module-level missing_intervals, and
PlanStagesBuilder._get_snapshots_to_create. Remove the redundant filter in
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- Line 1758: Update the dev-plan test to exercise deployability filtering: set
`is_dev=True` and give `snapshot_e` an interval covering the plan range. Assert
`snapshot_e` is absent from the `PhysicalLayerSchemaCreationStage` snapshots and
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- Line 2095: Update the missing-interval handling around
deployability_index.is_representative_not_deployable(snapshot) so audit-only
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- Line 2095: Resolve the dev-restatement behavior for representative,
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Snapshot.missing_intervals. Establish which physical table a dev restatement
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# If a snapshot is representative but not deployable (e.g. INDIRECT_NON_BREAKING snapshots) then it will only
# ever refer to the prod physical table, and so should never have any missing intervals.
if deployability_index.is_representative_not_deployable(snapshot):

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Major · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift

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Do not skip audit-only intervals for representative, non-deployable snapshots.

Scheduler.audit removes intervals so that _run_or_audit can treat them as missing. In a non-production environment, _run_or_audit builds the index with DeployabilityIndex.create. An unpaused forward-only snapshot is representative and not deployable. missing_intervals then drops it at definition.py:2095. If that snapshot is the only candidate, merged_intervals becomes empty. The scheduler returns NOTHING_TO_DO and does not run the audits.

Audit-only work must not depend on the evaluation filter for representative, non-deployable snapshots. Schedule audit-only intervals independently of that filter.

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Review comment at @sqlmesh/core/snapshot/definition.py at line 2095:
Update the missing-interval handling around
deployability_index.is_representative_not_deployable(snapshot) so audit-only
intervals for representative, non-deployable snapshots remain scheduled
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Resolve the conflict between dev restatements and representative, non-deployable snapshots.

The dev restatement guard in sqlmesh/core/plan/builder.py allows a paused snapshot to be restated in dev. A paused INDIRECT_NON_BREAKING snapshot with intervals is representative and not deployable. missing_intervals in sqlmesh/core/snapshot/definition.py skips such a snapshot at the is_representative_not_deployable check, before it applies restatements. The requested restatement therefore removes no interval and schedules no backfill for that snapshot. Snapshot.missing_intervals has the same early return.

The current code does not decide the intended behavior. Either the restatement must apply to this snapshot, or the builder guard must reject it. The choice depends on which physical table a dev restatement should write to. That decision is not established by the inspected source, so this comment does not propose a code change.

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Review comment at @sqlmesh/core/snapshot/definition.py at line 2095:
Resolve the dev-restatement behavior for representative, non-deployable
snapshots before changing the guard in missing_intervals or
Snapshot.missing_intervals. Establish which physical table a dev restatement
must affect, then either allow restatements to remove the relevant intervals and
schedule backfill, or reject dev restatements for these snapshots in the builder
guard. Preserve existing behavior for other snapshots.

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  • sqlmesh/core/plan/stages.py
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Bug: INDIRECT_NON_BREAKING snapshots in dev environments write to a table nobody reads, causing repeated re-backfills

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