This seems to be a known issue, but no indication of root cause or path to fix:
opened 05:59PM - 23 Nov 22 UTC
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**Ticket ID:** [#3938](https://… airbyte7538.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/3938)
**Priority:** normal
**Group:** Community Assistance Engineer
**Assignee:** Marcos Marx
**Original ticket description:**
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<li style="padding-bottom: 10px;">Is this your first time deploying Airbyte?: No</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 10px;">OS Version / Instance: <strong>Ubuntu 22.04</strong>
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<li style="padding-bottom: 10px;">Memory / Disk: <strong>8 gb/ 128 GB</strong>
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<li style="padding-bottom: 10px;">Deployment: <strong>Docker</strong>
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<li style="padding-bottom: 10px;">Airbyte Version: <strong>0.40.18</strong>
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<li style="padding-bottom: 10px;">Source name/version: <strong>MYSQL</strong>
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<li style="padding-bottom: 10px;">Destination name/version: <strong>PostGres</strong>
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<li style="padding-bottom: 10px;">Step: Issue is happening while applying airbyte configuration data to create a connection using octavia-cli</li>
<li style="padding-bottom: 10px;">Description:<br>
While creating airbyte connectors using octavia-cli, I’m able to create airbyte sources & airbyte destinations using octavia apply .<br>
but during creation of connections its raising issue , is there a updated octavia version , currently I’m using octavia :<strong>0.40.22</strong>.</li>
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<p dir="auto">once octavia apply used to upload data from local to airbyte this issue is coming in terminal:<br>
<strong>airbyte_api_client.exceptions.ApiTypeError: Invalid type for variable ‘geography’. Required value type is Geography and passed type was str at [‘geography’]</strong></p>
[<a href="https://discuss.airbyte.io/t/issue-while-using-octavia-apply-airbyte-connections/3269/1" rel="noreferrer">Discourse post</a>]</div></blockquote>
If you import a source, it will add some fields that then can’t be sent back. If you delete the fields from your configuration, it will select the defaults (though it will prompt you each time if you don’t use --force). If you need something other than the defaults, then I think you’re out of luck.