zhaoyongjie commented on a change in pull request #14863:
URL: https://github.com/apache/superset/pull/14863#discussion_r643817399



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File path: superset/connectors/sqla/models.py
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@@ -677,13 +677,25 @@ def external_metadata(self) -> List[Dict[str, str]]:
             for col in cols:
                 try:
                     if isinstance(col["type"], TypeEngine):
-                        col["type"] = db_engine_spec.column_datatype_to_string(
+                        db_type = db_engine_spec.column_datatype_to_string(
                             col["type"], db_dialect
                         )
+                        type_spec = db_engine_spec.get_column_spec(db_type)
+                        col.update(
+                            {
+                                "type": db_type,
+                                "generic_type": type_spec.generic_type

Review comment:
       good catch, rename it. btw, the method `external_metadata(self)` is for 
getting metadata from the table in database(In other words, not in superset 
saved metadata).




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