Create Table From Source Snapshotting

Creating the tables from sources starts the snapshotting process. Snapshotting syncs the currently available data into Materialize. Because the initial snapshot is persisted in the storage layer atomically (i.e., at the same ingestion timestamp), you are not able to query the table until snapshotting is complete.

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During the snapshotting, the data ingestion for the existing tables for the same source is temporarily blocked. As such, if possible, you can resize the cluster to speed up the snapshotting process and once the process finishes, resize the cluster for steady-state.

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