instead of relying upon various ``quote=True`` flags being passed around,
these flags are converted into rich string objects with quoting information
included at the point at which they are passed to common schema constructs
like :class:`.Table`, :class:`.Column`, etc. This solves the issue
of various methods that don't correctly honor the "quote" flag such
as :meth:`.Engine.has_table` and related methods. The :class:`.quoted_name`
object is a string subclass that can also be used explicitly if needed;
the object will hold onto the quoting preferences passed and will
also bypass the "name normalization" performed by dialects that
standardize on uppercase symbols, such as Oracle, Firebird and DB2.
The upshot is that the "uppercase" backends can now work with force-quoted
names, such as lowercase-quoted names and new reserved words.
[ticket:2812]
that "lowercase" is the case insensitive casing, we can't distinguish between case insensitive/not
on a database that returns case-insensitive names as UPPERCASE, for names that are UPPERCASE.
[ticket:2615]
become an externally usable package but still remains within the main sqlalchemy parent package.
in this system, we use kind of an ugly hack to get the noseplugin imported outside of the
"sqlalchemy" package, while still making it available within sqlalchemy for usage by
third party libraries.
of a Column as a string identifier in a
result set row. The .key is currently
listed as an "alternate" name for a column,
and is superseded by the name of a column
which has that key value as its regular name.
For the next major release
of SQLAlchemy we may reverse this precedence
so that .key takes precedence, but this
is not decided on yet. [ticket:2392]
as the cursor. There is no reason for CursorFairy - the only use case would be,
end-user is using the pool or pool.manage with DBAPI connections, uses a cursor,
deferences the owning connection and continues using cursor. This is an almost
nonexistent use case and isn't correct usage at a DBAPI level. Take out CursorFairy.
- move the "check for a dot in the colname" logic out to the sqlite dialect.
Mike Bayer