Are these instructions regarding dbt-postgres still valid? https://docs.meltano.com/getting-started/#transform-loaded-data-for-analysis I am trying to setup our meltano project on a new dev machine and am having issues with pytz. Tried removing dbt-postgres and reinstalling it and getting a message about "Installing 0 plugins...". At one point also had an error where it was asking for DBT_POSTGRES_HOST when it should be using the meltano env variables. Any help any pointing me the right direction is much appreciated.

@will_johnson we've migrated to recommending the dbt

utilities

over dbt

transformer

that doc you referenced should be updated (I'll create an issue for it) but you can follow https://docs.meltano.com/guide/transformation or https://docs.meltano.com/getting-started/part3

The TLDR is previously with the transformer type all of the integration logic was inside meltano core which had some disadvantages like a slow iteration cycle, making alterations to the logic for custom use cases was hard, etc. Now with utilities the logic lives outside the meltano core repo (dbt-ext) and is installed/called as a standalone package similar to how the rest of meltano's plugin architecture works.