Change how a column of type VECTOR is parsed

[achawkins]

resolves #1098
docs dbt-labs/docs.getdbt.com/#

Problem

When an incremental (maybe other materializations, but I have not checked) model with a VECTOR type is run, it will fail to create the SnowflakeColumn object from the from_description class method. This is because the dbt-adapters Column.from_description method does some parsing to extract the precision and scale of a numeric type and tries to cast both values within parenthesis to integers. The Snowflake vector is of the form VECTOR(<data_type>, <dimension>), so the <data_type> will fail to be cast as an integer.

Solution

If the data type has the word VECTOR in it, bypass the additional parsing done in dbt-adapters and return a SnowflakeColumn that uses the raw data type as the parsed data type. If it does not, then pass it through to the default from_description method.

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[colin-rogers-dbt]

@achawkins this looks pretty merge-able, are you able to sign our CLA and add a changelog?

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[achawkins]

@colin-rogers-dbt I must have signed the CLA with a different email before. I resigned it and added the changelog entry.

[colin-rogers-dbt]

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[liorchen]

can this be merged? blocking us from moving forward

[ChenVilinsky]

Is there any update on this PR status?
It's a real blocker...