Datetime field saved as dictionary in S3 parquet

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  • Is this your first time deploying Airbyte?: Yes
  • OS Version / Instance: Amazon Linux - EC2 t2.large
  • Memory / Disk: 8Gb / 30Gb
  • Deployment: Docker
  • Airbyte Version: 0.40.6
  • Source name/version: MySQL - 0.6.11
  • Destination name/version: S3 - 0.3.15
  • Step: Issue happens during sync
  • Description:

While synching a MySQL database to S3 Parquet, timestamp fields are beying converted to a dictionary structure:
{"member0": "2020-02-04T17:01:27.000+0000", "member1": null}

error
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Upon upgrading to AirByte 0.40.7, I get this log error:

2022-09-20 05:33:02 ERROR c.n.s.DateTimeValidator(tryParse):82 - Invalid date-time: No timezone information: 2022-06-24T16:34:37.000000
2022-09-20 05:33:02 ERROR c.n.s.DateTimeValidator(tryParse):82 - Invalid date-time: No timezone information: 2022-06-24T16:34:36.000000
2022-09-20 05:33:02 ERROR c.n.s.DateTimeValidator(tryParse):82 - Invalid date-time: No timezone information: 2022-06-24T16:34:37.000000
2022-09-20 05:33:02 ERROR c.n.s.DateTimeValidator(tryParse):82 - Invalid date-time: No timezone information: 2021-08-20T13:54:58.000000

The data is simply being loaded from a datetime field of a MySQL database. I noticed that using older versions of the MySQL source connector, like 0.6.1, works properly.

Any help fixing this is appreciated!

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Is downgrading Airbyte the only solution for this problem?

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After testing multiple MySQL source connector versions, I downgraded to version 0.6.2, and now the behavior described above is not happening anymore. Now, datetime fields are being saved as strings again, and not as objects.

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Hey team is looking into it. Date type written as dictionary for parquet format in s3 destination · Issue #14028 · airbytehq/airbyte · GitHub we are also facing the same in the cloud. In the meantime you can use the lower version and use custom dbt to convert the string into datetime if that makes sense

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Hello!
Are there plans to correct this behavior? Using parquet files would be way better, and we are trying to avoid doing too much workaround over this issue, since once it is fixed, all this work would have to be reverted.

Thanks!

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Hey @felcastro, we do currently have an open issue around this: Re-evaluate Avro logical type union · Issue #17011 · airbytehq/airbyte · GitHub

If you can give a thumbs up on the issue and leave some thoughts that would be really helpful!

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