[CT-3290] [Bug] Using --inline should exclude selectors.yml defaults

[racheldaniel]

Is this a new bug in dbt-core?

• [X] I believe this is a new bug in dbt-core
• [X] I have searched the existing issues, and I could not find an existing issue for this bug

Current Behavior

If a default selector is defined in selectors.yml, that selector will still applied when the --inline flag is used with show or compile.

See slack thread for additional context

Expected Behavior

• When we do dbt show --inline ... we expect default selectors to be ignored
• make --inline and --select mutually exclusive for dbt show (do this at the click level)

Steps To Reproduce

1. Add a default selector to a local dbt project's selectors.yml :

selectors:
  - name: test_selector
    description: Exclude everything
    default: true
    definition:
       method: package
       value: "foo"

2. Using dbt-core 1.5+ (for support for --inline), run dbt compile --inline 'select 1'
3. Observe that inline compile does not execute

Relevant log output

(dbt-core-1.6-local) racheldaniel:jaffle_shop/ (master✗) $ dbt compile --inline 'select 1'                                                                                                       [14:22:20]
19:22:26  Running with dbt=1.6.6
19:22:26  Registered adapter: postgres=1.6.6
19:22:26  Found 10 models, 3 seeds, 1 operation, 18 tests, 0 sources, 0 exposures, 0 metrics, 661 macros, 1 group, 0 semantic models
19:22:26  Using default selector test_selector
19:22:26
19:22:26  Nothing to do. Try checking your model configs and model specification args

Environment

- OS: MacOS Ventura 13.5.2
- Python: 3.8.10
- dbt: 1.6.6

Which database adapter are you using with dbt?

postgres

Additional Context

See https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9269#issuecomment-2125718609 for several specific cases where --inline doesn't work as desired.

[dbeatty10]

From @jtcohen6:

This does feel like unexpected behavior / a bug to me. Using --inline is mutually exclusive with using --select, so it would make sense to me that it should fully disregard all selection syntax.

I'd hope it could be a (relatively) quick fix here.

[graciegoheen]

Notes from estimation:

• this could be related to how default selection works - maybe instead of piping this through we would just add a selection criteria when --inline

[aranke]

This error also surfaces if you pass in both --select and --inline to dbt show when they shouldn't be:

❯ dbt show --select stg_orders
18:00:47  Running with dbt=1.7.9
18:00:47  Registered adapter: duckdb=1.7.3
18:00:47  Found 5 models, 3 seeds, 20 tests, 0 sources, 0 exposures, 0 metrics, 772 macros, 0 groups, 0 semantic models
18:00:47  
18:00:47  Concurrency: 24 threads (target='dev')
18:00:47  
18:00:48  Previewing node 'stg_orders':
| order_id | customer_id | order_date | status    |
| -------- | ----------- | ---------- | --------- |
|        1 |           1 | 2018-01-01 | returned  |
|        2 |           3 | 2018-01-02 | completed |
|        3 |          94 | 2018-01-04 | completed |
|        4 |          50 | 2018-01-05 | completed |
|        5 |          64 | 2018-01-05 | completed |

❯ dbt show --inline 'select 1 as foo'
18:01:15  Running with dbt=1.7.9
18:01:16  Registered adapter: duckdb=1.7.3
18:01:16  Found 5 models, 3 seeds, 20 tests, 0 sources, 0 exposures, 0 metrics, 772 macros, 0 groups, 0 semantic models
18:01:16  
18:01:16  Concurrency: 24 threads (target='dev')
18:01:16  
18:01:16  Previewing inline node:
| foo |
| --- |
|   1 |


❯ dbt show --select stg_orders --inline 'select 1 as foo'
18:00:58  Running with dbt=1.7.9
18:00:59  Registered adapter: duckdb=1.7.3
18:00:59  Found 5 models, 3 seeds, 20 tests, 0 sources, 0 exposures, 0 metrics, 772 macros, 0 groups, 0 semantic models
18:00:59  
18:00:59  Nothing to do. Try checking your model configs and model specification args

[graciegoheen]

Another related bug https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9269 -> dbt core should disregard selection / selectors altogether when running in inline mode during "interactive compile" and dbt show.