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| Raw tables contain complete historical data when using historical backfill. | ||
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| Note: `Timestamp` column will be empty for backfilled data. This is because we reverse engineer historical profile changes from the current state of the profile, and do not refer to the actual change history. |
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So we do not want to set to the current timestamp also? Also what is this timestamp? What does it refer to?
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timestamp refers to the instant at which the event was ingested into Segment. For backfill, we don't refer to individual events, but to the final profile state. So we don't have access to the original event timestamps.
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Proposed changes
Adding note on
Timestampcolumn being null in Profiles tables in case of backfill. This is expected behaviour and happens because we infer historical profile changes from the current state of the profile.Verified that
Timestampis null by running backfill in Staging.More context: Slack thread.
CSE requested change in documentation here: JIRA.
Merge timing
ASAP once approved.
Related issues (optional)
JIRA ticket: link.