Do Meltano and Airflow need to share a DB, or can ...
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fred_reimer
10/27/2021, 3:36 PMDo Meltano and Airflow need to share a DB, or can they point to different endpoints? My understanding is that the dags are pulled from the filesystem, not the database.
fred_reimer
10/27/2021, 4:18 PMNevermind, I see the actually point to different database names.
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emcp
10/27/2021, 4:25 PMout of the box I haven't even needed to instantiate any DB.. for airflow or meltano
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fred_reimer
10/27/2021, 4:26 PMIt will use a sqlite db if none is specified, but it is not recommended for production.
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emcp
10/27/2021, 4:26 PMgood to know for me then.. I am not a prod level deployment yet
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matt_arderne
10/27/2021, 5:24 PMWhat is risk of using sqlite db for prod? I had a look at it and the only thing I saw populated is run logs - presuming losing that is a low consequences affair, but maybe missing something
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fred_reimer
10/27/2021, 5:28 PMIt stores the state for incremental datapinelines...
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matt_arderne
10/27/2021, 5:30 PMAh it does indeed. tx