From d2c678973004644503e22ee09ed2c3b79d0df4db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Borja=20V=C3=A1zquez-Barreiros?= <borjav@spotify.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 20:41:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] changing destination

Update incremental.sql
---
 .changes/unreleased/Features-20250108-204100.yaml      |  6 ++++++
 .../bigquery/macros/materializations/incremental.sql   | 10 +++++++++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 .changes/unreleased/Features-20250108-204100.yaml

diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Features-20250108-204100.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Features-20250108-204100.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0e17005fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/unreleased/Features-20250108-204100.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+kind: Features
+body: allow changing the schema destination of tmp tables
+time: 2025-01-08T20:41:00.190868Z
+custom:
+    Author: borjavb
+    Issue: "1443"
diff --git a/dbt/include/bigquery/macros/materializations/incremental.sql b/dbt/include/bigquery/macros/materializations/incremental.sql
index 25a83b0c6..58014fade 100644
--- a/dbt/include/bigquery/macros/materializations/incremental.sql
+++ b/dbt/include/bigquery/macros/materializations/incremental.sql
@@ -72,12 +72,20 @@
 {% materialization incremental, adapter='bigquery', supported_languages=['sql', 'python'] -%}
 
   {%- set unique_key = config.get('unique_key') -%}
+  {%- set temp_schema = config.get('temp_schema') -%}
   {%- set full_refresh_mode = (should_full_refresh()) -%}
   {%- set language = model['language'] %}
 
   {%- set target_relation = this %}
   {%- set existing_relation = load_relation(this) %}
-  {%- set tmp_relation = make_temp_relation(this) %}
+  {%- set temp_schema = config.get('temp_schema') -%}
+  {%- if temp_schema is not none-%}
+      {%- set temp_relation = this.incorporate(path={
+        "schema": temp_schema
+        }) -%}
+        {%- do create_schema(temp_relation) -%}
+  {% endif %}
+  {%- set tmp_relation = make_temp_relation(temp_relation) %}
 
   {#-- Validate early so we don't run SQL if the strategy is invalid --#}
   {% set strategy = dbt_bigquery_validate_get_incremental_strategy(config) -%}