CSV-File with dtypes specified being cast as TEXT in Postgres Destination

Connector Questions & Issues
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  • Is this your first time deploying Airbyte?: Yes
  • OS Version / Instance: Linux
  • Memory / Disk: 16GB
  • Deployment: Docker
  • Airbyte Version: What version are you using now? 0.40.22
  • Source name/version: -
  • Destination name/version: N/A
  • Step: Adding Source, Connection with File connector 0.2.31
  • Description:

I have a bunch of CSVs I’ve added as a Source for the File-Connector.
I’m specifying the dtypes in the “Reader Options” like this:

{"dtype": {"Open": "float64", "High": "float64", "Low": "float64", "Close": "float64", "Adj Close": "float64", "Volume": "int64"}}

However when I have a connection set-up with a Postgres destination all columns are CAST into texts.

It seems to be specific to Yahoo Finance (Example URL here) where I’m getting the data from. Other sources providing CSVs work correctly.

RAW-JSON from the File-Source looks like this:

 {"Low": 287.119995, "Date": "1987-03-09", "High": 290.660004, "Open": 290.660004, "Close": 288.299988, "Volume": 165400000, "Adj Close": 288.299988}

In the logs there is this:

i.a.w.g.DefaultReplicationWorker(lambda$readFromSrcAndWriteToDstRunnable$5):336 - Schema validation errors found for stream _YF_^GSPC_1D. Error messages: [$.Low is of an incorrect type. Expected it to be [string, null], $.Close is of an incorrect type. Expected it to be [string, null], $.Adj Close is of an incorrect type. Expected it to be [string, null], $.Volume is of an incorrect type. Expected it to be [string, null], $.High is of an incorrect type. Expected it to be [string, null], $.Open is of an incorrect type. Expected it to be [string, null]]

Any idea why this like this and how this can be changed?

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My suspicion is that it’s due to the long floats being recognized as object-types by read_csv. This is being converted to a string as it’s the default mapping-type of an object dtype. (also see here)

However adding {"float_precision": "round_trip"} to the source-config doesn’t solve the issue, so I guess it should be added when creating/validating the schema.

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Can you check this issue on Github? https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/issues/19901 Probably is the same as yours.

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Yes, it sounds indeed quite similar, although it’s about timestamps and not (long) floats. Do you think it makes sense to open another issue or is this one enough?

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The issue is about data type in reader_options right?

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I’m the one who entered the timestamp issue, and I don’t think I’d characterize it as an issue with reader_options per se. In my case, I’d expect Airbyte to recognize timestamps with or without the correct reader_options. I tried the reader_options possibilities as a possible work-around.

Also, TBC I’m using Airbyte on datasets I haven’t seen, so I will not be able to explicitly assign datatypes.

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Well I’d appreciate not having to specify the data types either - it seems to be an issue that long floats with more than two decimal places are not being recognized correctly as floats but as strings. The specification of the data types was just a workardound (that didn’t work out).

So I agree - there seem to be some issues around recognizing the correct dtype (be it a timestamp or float) that’s the root cause in both cases.