Question about Refresh Mode in Airbyte

[slack-user-airbyte]

Summary

User is asking about the behavior of switching from full refresh to incremental (dedupe) in Airbyte’s Refresh mode, specifically whether it retains or removes records when refreshing the stream.

Question

Hey team, for the new Refresh mode,

When i switch from full refresh to incremental (dedupe), it will ask to refresh the stream,

Wondering, it is refresh and retain OR remove record?

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[slack-user-airbyte]

https://docs.airbyte.com/operator-guides/refreshes

[slack-user-airbyte]

have test it out, it is refresh and retain then dedupe, if remove, the internal table will almost remove the old generation records, but switching sync mode didnt remove old record in generation records