I am looking at the elt documentation examples https://docs.meltano.com/reference/command-line-interface#examples What will be the behavior of command below :

meltano elt tap-gitlab target-postgres --state-id=gitlab-to-postgres --dump=state > extract/tap-gitlab.state.json

dump the state after completion of elt ? or is it before ?

@binoy_shah my understanding is that when the

--dump

command is included the pipeline isnt actually run, its more for debugging. You can alternatively use the

state

command to retrieve those states as well

That's correct. --dump makes the invocation a no-op in terms of data movement. So you'd want to run once the regular way and once again with --dump. I'll add that the recommended method to export state is with the new

meltano state get

commands. This method is slightly simpler in terms of syntax. https://docs.meltano.com/reference/command-line-interface#state

Thank you AJ