data-paths
dbt_project.yml
data-paths: [directorypath]
Definition
Optionally specify a custom list of directories where seed files are located.
Default
By default, dbt expects analyses to be located in the data
directory, i.e. data-paths: ["data"]
Examples
seeds
instead of data
Use a subdirectory named dbt_project.yml
data-paths: ["seeds"]
models
directory
Co-locate your models and seeds in the Note: this works because dbt is looking for different file types for seeds (.csv
files) and models (.sql
files).
dbt_project.yml
data-paths: ["models"]source-paths: ["models"]
Split your seeds across two directories
Note: We recommend that you instead use two subdirectories within the data/
directory to achieve a similar effect.
dbt_project.yml
data-paths: ["data", "seeds"]