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> Metabase doesn't support CSV files

The expectation is that data is loaded into your database, which is reasonable. None of these tools are built to ingest data from multiple disparate sources and perform their own aggregations (like Tableau), but rather depend on locality of data on the database under query.

there is a csv driver[1] which allows you map a csv file on the metabase server, or providing a url of the csv. But I guess most people (including myself) would think of "upload csv file via UI" when it comes to csv support.

[1] https://github.com/Markenson/csv-metabase-driver/releases/ta...

Uploading CSV support is on Metabase's roadmap.

https://www.metabase.com/roadmap/

Yep, I'm fully aware of that. I should have pointed it out, sorry. Indeed, I have an ingestion process which populates an PostgreSQL db from the csv