Are the docs for "multiple variants" out of date? https://docs.meltano.com/guide/plugin-management/#multiple-variants

https://docs.meltano.com/guide/plugin-management/#multiple-variants Describes your situation well, but I'm not sure it's 100% correct as

Had there been no

target-snowflake

plugin in the project yet,

inherit_from: target-snowflake

would necessarily refer to the discoverable plugin, but without a

variant

the original variant would have been used rather than the default or a specific chosen one, just like when shadowing with a

name

but no

variant

.

Running that code myself on the latest version of Meltano it doesn't work. This is definitely a regression, could you submit a bug report? To make this work you kinda have to stand on one leg as the issue is lock files don't seem to generate properly when you just do the lock file command 1.

meltano add extractor tap-postgres

2.

meltano add extractor tap-postgres--transferwise --inherit-from tap-postgres --variant transferwise

3. now meltano install will work, and

meltano lock --update --all

works as the wise variant is generated properly Working yml file

version: 1
default_environment: dev
project_id: dd8fe0cf-30c1-4e6d-b74c-f68ac5fac7fd
plugins:
  extractors:
  - name: tap-postgres
    variant: meltanolabs
    pip_url: git+<https://github.com/MeltanoLabs/tap-postgres.git>
  - name: tap-postgres--transferwise
    inherit_from: tap-postgres
    variant: transferwise
    pip_url: pipelinewise-tap-postgres

Weird one for sure, comes down to lock files

Thanks! Yeah adding them one at a time worked for me

If you have a fork I would just go with the custom extractor steps and then you don't have to worry abou this variant stuff

Thanks! I'll try that out