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.
- with m2m we have to go back to the previous approach of having both sides of
the DP fire off, tracking each pair of objects. history may not be consistently present
in one side or the other
- this revealed a whole lot of issues with self-referential m2m, which are fixed
- one-to-many relationships now maintain a list of positive
parent-child associations within the flush, preventing
previous parents marked as deleted from cascading a
delete or NULL foreign key set on those child objects,
despite the end-user not removing the child from the old
association. [ticket:1764]
- re-established Preprocess as unique on their arguments,
as they were definitely duped in inheritance scenarios
- added a "memo" feature to UOWTransaction which represents the usual
pattern of using the .attributes collection
- added the test case from [ticket:1081] into perf/
Mike Bayer