[Feature] select nodes that don't yet exist in the database

[rchui]

Is this your first time submitting a feature request?

• I have read the expectations for open source contributors
• I have searched the existing issues, and I could not find an existing issue for this feature
• I am requesting a straightforward extension of existing dbt functionality, rather than a Big Idea better suited to a discussion

Describe the feature

AFAIK, there is no way to tell dbt, "execute models that don't yet exist". There is only a way to say, execute changed models or new models if you already have a state manifest stored somewhere, but what if this workload is fresh and no state manifest exists? What if a new view was added but you don't want to recreate all of the views on every dbt run?

dbt already knows what exists and what doesn't exist. It goes through different code paths when running incremental models and you can see the introspection queries in the logs.

Describe alternatives you've considered

There is no alternative I am aware of.

Who will this benefit?

Everyone who regularly creates new workloads

Are you interested in contributing this feature?

I would need guidance.

Anything else?

No response