Advanced configuration usage

Alternative config block syntax

Some configurations may contain characters (e.g. dashes) that cannot be parsed as a jinja argument. For example, the following would return an error:

{{ config(
    post-hook="grant select on {{ this }} to role reporter",
    materialized='table'
) }}

select ...

While dbt provides an alias for any core configurations (e.g. you should use pre_hook instead of pre-hook in a config block), your dbt project may contain custom configurations without aliases.

If you want to specify these configurations in side of a model, use the altenative config block syntax:

models/events/base/base_events.sql

{{
  config({
    "post-hook": "grant select on {{ this }} to role reporter",
    "materialized": "table"
  })
}}


select ...