[BUG or Code 18?]

[jeanmichelbouchard]

Describe the bug

Hi, I am trying to generate a diagram for a specific set of views using --select to list them. I am not able to have dbterd to pick the view from the catalog. It always returns with an empty diagram and the "INFO - Collected 0 table(s) and 0 relationship(s)" message.

Things I tested and returned empty diagram

• Use only the view name : dbterd run --select V_F_VEHICULE_PERSONNEL_TRANSACTION_PRIME
• Try in lower case even though its in upper case in dbt : dbterd run --select v_f_vehicule_personnel_transaction_prime
• Try with the "model" prefix : dbterd run --select model.V_F_VEHICULE_PERSONNEL_TRANSACTION_PRIME
• Try adding the project name : dbterd run --select model.dbt_VDE.V_F_VEHICULE_PERSONNEL_TRANSACTION_PRIME
• Try with the schema name also : dbterd run --select model.dbt_VDE.AFFAIRE.V_F_VEHICULE_PERSONNEL_TRANSACTION_PRIME
• Other variants : dbterd run --select model.AFFAIRE.V_F_VEHICULE_PERSONNEL_TRANSACTION_PRIME
• dbterd run --select AFFAIRE.V_F_VEHICULE_PERSONNEL_TRANSACTION_PRIME

Things I tested and gave me results

• No selectors : dbterd run
  INFO - Collected 1009 table(s) and 0 relationship(s)

• Using the schema : dbterd run --select schema:AFFAIRE
  Result : INFO - Collected 755 table(s) and 0 relationship(s)
  In the model there is my view and the name matchs one of my tries above:
  Table "model.dbt_VDE.V_F_VEHICULE_PERSONNEL_TRANSACTION_PRIME" {

• Use of wildcards : dbterd run --select wildcard:V_F_VEHICULE_PERSONNEL_TRANSACTION_PRIME
  Result: INFO - Collected 4 table(s) and 0 relationship(s) (test_relationship.py:62)
  In the model there is my view and the name matchs one of my tries above:
  Table "model.dbt_VDE.V_F_VEHICULE_PERSONNEL_TRANSACTION_PRIME" {

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 11

• dbterd --version
  2026-05-17 09:36:04,735 - dbterd - INFO - Run with dbterd==1.25.0 (main.py:59)
  2026-05-17 09:36:04,736 - dbterd - INFO - Using algorithm [test_relationship] (executor.py:79)
  2026-05-17 09:36:04,736 - dbterd - INFO - Using dbt artifact dir at: D:\git\dbt\dbt_VDE/target (executor.py:125)
  2026-05-17 09:36:04,942 - dbterd - INFO - Auto-detected manifest version: 12 (executor.py:218)
  2026-05-17 09:36:04,943 - dbterd - INFO - Patching manifest v12 for compatibility... (file.py:191)
  2026-05-17 09:36:05,857 - dbterd - INFO - Auto-detected catalog version: 1 (executor.py:241)
  2026-05-17 09:36:05,858 - dbterd - INFO - Patching catalog v1 for compatibility... (file.py:223)
  2026-05-17 09:36:07,662 - dbterd - INFO - Collected 1009 table(s) and 0 relationship(s) (test_relationship.py:62)
  2026-05-17 09:36:07,697 - dbterd - INFO - Output saved to D:\git\dbt\dbt_VDE\target/output.dbml (executor.py:261)

• dbt version
  Core:

  • installed: 1.9.0
  • latest: 1.11.10 - Update available!

  Your version of dbt-core is out of date!
  You can find instructions for upgrading here:
  https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/installation

Plugins:

• snowflake: 1.9.0 - Update available!

Thank you for your help

[datnguye]

Hi @jeanmichelbouchard thanks for the question!

Could you please take a look at this parser docs and confirm which approach that you're following now to get ER?