[grindheim]

Fixes #1098

Problem

process_freshness_result reads max_loaded_at_time_ago_in_s from result_dict.age. dbt-core's freshness result has age, but the result dbt v2 passes to the on-run-end hook does not; it has the value as max_loaded_at_time_ago_in_s (the sources.json name). So every dbt v2 row in dbt_source_freshness_results gets a null max_loaded_at_time_ago_in_s, which hides the freshness details in the report and shows "Time Elapsed: N/A" in alerts.

Fix

A new macro, get_freshness_result_age, uses age when it is set and falls back to max_loaded_at_time_ago_in_s otherwise. dbt-core results are unchanged.

Test

• test_get_freshness_result_age calls the new macro with dbt-core-shaped (age) and dbt-v2-shaped (max_loaded_at_time_ago_in_s, no age) results, so the dbt v2 fallback is covered on every target. It passed on all targets in CI.
• Checked by hand with dbt v2 2.0.11 on BigQuery, running dbt source freshness with the package installed from this branch's first commit (the same fallback, inline before it moved into get_freshness_result_age). The new row got max_loaded_at_time_ago_in_s = 88.0 (snapshotted_at - max_loaded_at ≈ 88.5 s), where rows from 0.26.1 in the same table have null.
• get_freshness_result_age also checked locally with dbt-core 1.12.6 on DuckDB (run-operation), with the same inputs as the test.

Unrelated to this fix, but found along the way: test_source_freshness_results doesn't actually exercise source freshness on several targets. Its source points at target.schema while the seed lands in target.schema plus the pytest-xdist worker suffix, and its "UPDATE_TIME"::timestamp cast isn't valid T-SQL. So dbt source freshness fails with a runtime error and stores a runtime-error row, which passes the test's row-exists check. Asserting that the row has max_loaded_at_time_ago_in_s failed on DuckDB, Postgres, SQL Server, Vertica, Trino, Dremio and Spark, so I left that test unchanged here.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Source freshness results now report the time since the latest load consistently across dbt runtimes, including dbt Fusion.
  • Improved validation of freshness results to check that each row includes a load-age value.

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Walkthrough

The source freshness macro now falls back to max_loaded_at_time_ago_in_s when age is absent. The integration test checks that each returned source freshness result has a non-null value.

Changes: Source freshness age

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Select and validate freshness age macros/edr/dbt_artifacts/upload_source_freshness.sql, integration_tests/tests/test_dbt_artifacts/test_artifacts.py	process_freshness_result uses age when present and otherwise uses max_loaded_at_time_ago_in_s. The integration test asserts that each result has a non-null max_loaded_at_time_ago_in_s value.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: michael-myaskovsky, ofek1weiss

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review a9b4b

The change makes dbt v2 source freshness store its age value, and the product code looks correct. The newly enabled integration test can fail under parallel test runs because its source points at the wrong schema. That would break CI rather than production. It can also fail on reruns that keep old rows. Fix the schema suffix before merging.

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Title check		The title "fix: store source freshness age for dbt v2 results" matches the main change. The PR adds get_freshness_result_age, which falls back from the dbt v2 max_loaded_at_time_ago_in_s field to age,…
Linked Issues check		[#1098] The whole-PR diff against the merge base adds get_freshness_result_age in macros/edr/dbt_artifacts/upload_source_freshness.sql. process_freshness_result now sets `max_loaded_at_time_ago_…
Out of Scope Changes check		The whole-PR diff changes two files. The macro change in upload_source_freshness.sql implements the [#1098] fix. The change in test_artifacts.py removes the fusion skip from `test_source_freshness…

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The title "fix: store source freshness age for dbt v2 results" matches the main change. The PR adds get_freshness_result_age, which falls back from the dbt v2 max_loaded_at_time_ago_in_s field to age, so freshness age is stored for dbt v2 results. The title is specific and concise, and it names the affected path (dbt v2) and the stored value (freshness age).

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[#1098] The whole-PR diff against the merge base adds get_freshness_result_age in macros/edr/dbt_artifacts/upload_source_freshness.sql. process_freshness_result now sets max_loaded_at_time_ago_in_s from this macro. When is_dbt_fusion() is true, the macro returns result_dict.max_loaded_at_time_ago_in_s. Otherwise it returns result_dict.age. is_dbt_fusion() returns true when the dbt major version is 2, so dbt v2 results read the field that dbt v2 provides. This addresses the null value described in the issue. The integration test test_source_freshness_results no longer skips dbt Fusion and asserts that every returned row has a non-null max_loaded_at_time_ago_in_s. This covers the reported behavior in CI on fusion targets. Two points differ from the PR description. The description says the macro uses age when set and falls back otherwise. The code selects by dbt major version instead. The description also cites a test_get_freshness_result_age unit test. That test does not appear in the whole-PR diff, so the macro has no direct unit test at this head. The behavior required by the issue is still implemented.

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The whole-PR diff changes two files. The macro change in upload_source_freshness.sql implements the [#1098] fix. The change in test_artifacts.py removes the fusion skip from test_source_freshness_results and adds a non-null assertion on max_loaded_at_time_ago_in_s. This test change verifies the same fix. No unrelated changes appear in the diff. The PR description says test_source_freshness_results was left unchanged. The diff shows that the test was changed, so the description is stale on this point. This does not make any change out of scope.

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integration_tests/tests/test_dbt_artifacts/test_artifacts.py: 1

199-200: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Test the Fusion fallback.

This test skips Fusion at Line 146, so the assertion does not exercise the new fallback. Add a test with a Fusion-shaped result that has no age, and assert that the stored value matches max_loaded_at_time_ago_in_s.

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Update the artifact test around the max_loaded_at_time_ago_in_s assertion to
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Provide a Fusion-shaped result without age and assert that the stored value
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Minor · Limit the query to the current freshness run. · test_artifacts.py:197

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Limit the query to the current freshness run.

With --skip-init, a previous runtime-error row remains in the append-only table. Because test_id is stable, the new assertion checks that row and fails even when the current run succeeds. Filter by the current invocation or clear matching rows before the run. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update the freshness assertion’s `where` filter using `test_id` so it considers
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@coderabbitai Re the outside-diff comment on test_artifacts.py (filtering the freshness assertion to the current invocation): not applicable. Each test session clears the environment first (env.clear() in conftest.py, which drops the Elementary and test schemas before env.init() rebuilds them), and this test runs once per session, so dbt_source_freshness_results only ever holds rows from the current run. The only way to keep older rows is a manual local --skip-init run, which affects every artifact test in this file the same way.

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@grindheim You’re right. The session fixture clears and rebuilds the schemas on non-Dremio targets, and the assertion already filters by the test-specific unique_id. I withdraw the request for an invocation filter.

For completeness, Environment.clear() also skips Dremio, which uses a Docker environment.

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Thanks! We checked this PR locally with dbt v2 and it fixes the issue. A few comments inline.

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Use the worker schema for the source definition.

Removing the Fusion skip exposes this test to Fusion runs under pytest-xdist. DbtProject sets schema_name_suffix from the worker ID, and generate_schema_name appends that suffix to the seed schema. This source definition omits the suffix. For worker gw0, the seed therefore uses the worker schema, but freshness queries the base schema. Append SCHEMA_NAME_SUFFIX, as DbtProject.test already does. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

When the base schema has no matching table, freshness cannot produce the required successful result. The subsequent read or non-null assertion fails instead of testing age selection. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update the source schema definition using schema_property to append SCHEMA_NAME_SUFFIX, matching the worker-specific schema used by DbtProject.test and ensuring freshness queries the same schema as the seed.

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