Help Understanding Snapshots invalidate_hard_deletes

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I’m trying to understand the full impact of configuring invalidate_hard_deletes for snapshots.

My understanding is this causes dbt to populate dbt_valid_to when a source record is recognized as deleted. Is this the only behavior of this configuration flag?

Thanks!

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Yes that’s right - if a record is deleted, its dbt_valid_to will be set to the time the dbt snapshot runs instead of staying “open” by being null.