SNOW-2135807: Support for "semantic views" at the dialect level?

[mistercrunch]

context: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/views-semantic/overview

We're looking to add semantic view support to Apache Superset, and wondering what is the best place to do so.

Now I'm thinking the best place for it might be in this driver. It would probably require:

• exposing semantic views as normal views (assuming they behave consistently-enough with views), presumably through get_view_names, and returning extra metadata as to whether the view in the list is a pure or semantic view
• extending get_column_names to handle semantic views - again, assuming they generally behave like views

Is it in the plan to support this? Would contributions be welcomed to add this feature to the dialect?

Any fundamental reasons why semantic views are too different from traditional views to be handled in such a way?

[mistercrunch]

oh just saw the notice on the README, poop. Let me open an issue about finding new maintainers for the package, we might be able to take ownership at https://github.com/preset-io

[sfc-gh-dszmolka]

yup :( so, closing this issue for now.

[sfc-gh-dszmolka]

The library is now out of maintenance mode 🎉, so reopening this issue. so it could be addressed per available resources.