Redshift source "Failed to fetch schema"

Connector Questions & Issues
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  • Is this your first time deploying Airbyte?: No
  • OS Version / Instance: Ubuntu VM / GCP n1-standard-2
  • Memory / Disk: 2 vCPUs, 7.5 GB memory
  • Deployment: Docker
  • Airbyte Version: 0.39.35
  • Source name/version: Redshift 0.3.14
  • Destination name/version: BigQuery 1.1.11
  • Step: Fetching source schema
  • Description: Redshift data source fails to load schema

Hi! I am trying to set up a Redshift data source. The source test connection succeeds, but when I try to create a connection with it, I get the error message “Failed to fetch schema. Please try again”, and I don’t know how to troubleshoot further. I know the user I am using has read permissions on the cluster/database/schema I am trying to connect to.

What steps can I take to try and figure out what is going on? Would it help to temporarily increase the size of the disk running our Airbyte server? What does it mean when a Redshift data source tries to fetch a schema and fails without explanation after a few seconds?

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Maybe, open the network tab to get the API response and see if there is better error explanation there.
Other solution is to create a test user with only one table access and see if it is able to catch the table.
How many tables this database has?