From bc6706045809ad82aebfe0de918acc84a059c055 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Derek Visch <visch@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 11:37:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Sessions should stay open even if snowflake is idle for hours

---
 target_snowflake/connector.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/target_snowflake/connector.py b/target_snowflake/connector.py
index 74f3e73..d6da612 100644
--- a/target_snowflake/connector.py
+++ b/target_snowflake/connector.py
@@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ def create_engine(self) -> Engine:
         connect_args = {
             "session_parameters": {
                 "QUOTED_IDENTIFIERS_IGNORE_CASE": "TRUE",
+                "client_session_keep_alive": "TRUE", # See https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-python/issues/218
             },
         }
         if self.auth_method == SnowflakeAuthMethod.KEY_PAIR: