diff --git a/misc/dbt-materialize/CHANGELOG.md b/misc/dbt-materialize/CHANGELOG.md
index 1ec4645e4d22..8420cc0ca960 100644
--- a/misc/dbt-materialize/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/misc/dbt-materialize/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 * Add support for overriding the `generate_cluster_name` macro to customize the
   cluster name generation logic in user projects.
+* Stop adding aliases to subqueries when calling with `--empty` flag.
 
 ## 1.8.0 - 2024-05-23
 
diff --git a/misc/dbt-materialize/dbt/adapters/materialize/relation.py b/misc/dbt-materialize/dbt/adapters/materialize/relation.py
index 6dd57e3bbb9b..2ace22cb914d 100644
--- a/misc/dbt-materialize/dbt/adapters/materialize/relation.py
+++ b/misc/dbt-materialize/dbt/adapters/materialize/relation.py
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ class MaterializeRelationType(StrEnum):
 @dataclass(frozen=True, eq=False, repr=False)
 class MaterializeRelation(PostgresRelation):
     type: Optional[MaterializeRelationType] = None
+    require_alias: bool = False
 
     # Materialize does not have a 63-character limit for relation names, unlike
     # PostgreSQL (see dbt-core #2727). Instead, we set 255 as the maximum
diff --git a/misc/dbt-materialize/tests/adapter/test_empty.py b/misc/dbt-materialize/tests/adapter/test_empty.py
index f2a80f0401ca..91dc5b3ed789 100644
--- a/misc/dbt-materialize/tests/adapter/test_empty.py
+++ b/misc/dbt-materialize/tests/adapter/test_empty.py
@@ -13,8 +13,15 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-from dbt.tests.adapter.empty.test_empty import BaseTestEmpty
+from dbt.tests.adapter.empty.test_empty import (
+    BaseTestEmpty,
+    BaseTestEmptyInlineSourceRef,
+)
 
 
 class TestMaterializeEmpty(BaseTestEmpty):
     pass
+
+
+class TestMaterializeEmptyInlineSourceRef(BaseTestEmptyInlineSourceRef):
+    pass