Hi,
This issue references a discussion in the Tobiko Slack.
When using Athena as a gateway, the schema_name config is not applied to unqualified models and default is used instead.
@erindru 's explanation:
schema_name is a passed to the PyAthena driver, which injects it into the QueryExecutionContext part of the AWS API calls as Database (so the idea here is that the database driver effectively calls SET SCHEMA <schema_name> before running a query).