Invalid operation: cannot drop sortkey column "_airbyte_emitted_at"

  • Is this your first time deploying Airbyte?: Yes
  • OS Version / Instance: Ubuntu
  • Memory / Disk: 16Gb / 100 Gb
  • Deployment: Docker
  • Airbyte Version: 0.40.18
  • Source name/version: Oracle 0.3.21
  • Destination name/version: Redshift 0.3.51
  • Step: The issue is happening during sync
  • Description:
    I updated Airbyte version to 0.40.0 to 0.40.18 and some connectors updated automatically. I test my connection from Oracle to Redshift with versions above the syncs fails in the destination given me the message Invalid operation: cannot drop sortkey column "_airbyte_emitted_at"

I test dowgrade the Redshift destination version to last that works 0.3.28 and the connections works.

Complete logs attached.
6e7e2f18_5c8a_4789_a9b9_b303aaddc251_logs_6453_txt.txt (342.2 KB)

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Hey @boggdan, sorry to hear you’re running into this issue! I’m looking into this and hope to have some info for you soon!

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Thanks @natalyjazzviolin I upgraded Airbyte to 0.40.19 but I cannot downgrade the image of the Redshift/Destination to 0.3.28 as usually I did every time that I upgrade to keep the connection works.

My connections now are broken.

I find a solution for my case.

I check the DDL of the table:

DISTSTYLE AUTO
 DISTKEY (_airbyte_ab_id)
 SORTKEY (
	_airbyte_emitted_at
	)

The destination cannot drop _airbyte_emitted_at because it was sortkey. So I disable de sortkey with:

ALTER TABLE […] ALTER SORTKEY NONE

Docs reference: Amazon Redshift now supports changing table sort keys dynamically

This is really insightful, thanks so much for the details and I’m so glad you were able to find the solution!

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