Clarify copy_partitions

[mwstanleyft]

copy_partitions does not require ingestion time partitioning and is not a legacy mechanism

What are you changing in this pull request and why?

Clarifying when copy_partitions can be used and why it's useful.

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[dataders]

@mwstanleyft can you help me with a little more context here? the edit seems as if it's correcting a previously incorrect statement. is this specific to a version of dbt-bigquery or relevant to everyone?

[mwstanleyft]

It's relevant to anyone on any version of dbt-bigquery. The old description called this a "legacy" mechanism but it's a fully supported feature of the BigQuery API.

[mirnawong1]

picking this up and asked in slack to confirm: https://dbt-labs.slack.com/archives/C067EUS2D7S/p1704896406558099

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[mirnawong1]

hey @mwstanleyft thanks so much for your patience on this and apologies for the delay here. i appreciate you opening this up to clarify the docs and 've confirmed internally on our end. I will get this merged for you ✨