Syntax troubles with dbt, Incorrect type. Expected "Seed configs" - syntax

Question

I am learning dbt via the jaffle_shop project. I'm trying to set-up the raw data in a raw database, and jaffle_shop schema in order to call the relevant sources later on.
I am having a bit of trouble with my seeds config syntax within my dbt_project.yml, what am I doing wrong?
seeds:
- schema: jaffle_shop
- database: raw
- name: customers
config:
enabled: true
column_types:
id: integer
first_name: varchar(50)
last_name: varchar(50)
columns:
- name: id
tests:
- not_null
- unique
- name: first_name
- name: last_name
- name: orders
config:
enabled: true
column_types:
id: integer
user_id: integer
order_date: date
status: varchar(100)
columns:
- name: id
tests:
- not_null
- unique
- name: user_id
- name: order_date
- name: status
- name: payments
config:
enabled: true
column_types:
id: integer
order_id: integer
payment_method: varchar(100)
amount: integer
columns:
- name: id
tests:
- not_null
- unique
- name: user_id
- name: order_date
- name: status
I am working on VSCode, and using the extension dbt power user, perhaps it doesn't recognize the underlined config paramemters?
I tried writing it this way :
seeds:
+schema: jaffle_shop
which gives no errors until I add +database..
I searched the docs, but I don't see the discrepancy with what I wrote...

Answer 1

You're mixing together two different ways to provide configuration to dbt. See the docs for configuring seeds, and the more general page on the difference between configs and properties.
You can provide general config that applies to all seeds (or a subset of seeds in a specific directory) in your dbt_project.yml file. These configs use the + syntax and only include a subset of all configuration options. This works because it's a project-level config:
seeds:
+schema: jaffle_shop
As of v1.3, these are all of the possible seed configs:
seeds:
<resource-path>:
+quote_columns: true | false
+column_types: {column_name: datatype}
+enabled: true | false
+tags: <string> | [<string>]
+pre-hook: <sql-statement> | [<sql-statement>]
+post-hook: <sql-statement> | [<sql-statement>]
+database: <string>
+schema: <string>
+alias: <string>
+persist_docs: <dict>
+full_refresh: <boolean>
+meta: {<dictionary>}
+grants: {<dictionary>}
You can provide properties or config for an individual seed using what is now called a "property" file (formerly a schema.yml file). These property files can be named anything, as long as they are .yml files. It's usually a good idea to put a single resource's properties in a single file, put that file in the same directory as the resource definition, and name it my_resource.yml. Or you can group them together, with something like seeds.yml. It's these property files that use the syntax that you are trying to place in your dbt_project.yml file:
version: 2
seeds:
- name: customers
config:
enabled: true
column_types:
id: integer
first_name: varchar(50)
last_name: varchar(50)
columns:
- name: id
tests:
- not_null
- unique
- name: first_name
- name: last_name