to rely upon server generated version identifiers, using triggers
or other database-provided versioning features, by passing the value
``False``. The ORM will use RETURNING when available to immediately
load the new version identifier, else it will emit a second SELECT.
[ticket:2793]
- The ``eager_defaults`` flag of :class:`.Mapper` will now allow the
newly generated default values to be fetched using an inline
RETURNING clause, rather than a second SELECT statement, for backends
that support RETURNING.
- Added a new variant to :meth:`.ValuesBase.returning` called
:meth:`.ValuesBase.return_defaults`; this allows arbitrary columns
to be added to the RETURNING clause of the statement without interfering
with the compilers usual "implicit returning" feature, which is used to
efficiently fetch newly generated primary key values. For supporting
backends, a dictionary of all fetched values is present at
:attr:`.ResultProxy.returned_defaults`.
- add a glossary entry for RETURNING
- add documentation for version id generation, [ticket:867]
- update "not supported" messages for empty inserts, mutlivalue inserts
- rework the ValuesBase approach for multiple value sets so that stmt.parameters
does store a list for multiple values; the _has_multiple_parameters flag now indicates
which of the two modes the statement is within. it now raises exceptions if a subsequent
call to values() attempts to call a ValuesBase with one mode in the style of the other
mode; that is, you can't switch a single- or multi- valued ValuesBase to the other mode,
and also if a multiple value is passed simultaneously with a kwargs set.
Added tests for these error conditions
- Calling values() multiple times in multivalue mode now extends the parameter list to
include the new parameter sets.
- add error/test if multiple *args were passed to ValuesBase.values()
- rework the compiler approach for multivalue inserts, back to where
_get_colparams() returns the same list of (column, value) as before, thereby
maintaining the identical number of append() and other calls when multivalue
is not enabled. In the case of multivalue, it makes a last-minute switch to return
a list of lists instead of the single list. As it constructs the additional lists, the inline
defaults and other calculated default parameters of the first parameter
set are copied into the newly generated lists so that these features continue
to function for a multivalue insert. Multivalue inserts now add no additional
function calls to the compilation for regular insert constructs.
- parameter lists for multivalue inserts now includes an integer index for all
parameter sets.
- add detailed documentation for ValuesBase.values(), including careful wording
to describe the difference between multiple values and an executemany() call.
- add a test for multivalue insert + returning - it works !
- remove the very old/never used "postgresql_returning"/"firebird_returning" flags.
- don't hardwire "subqueries" requirement in the base, mysql < 4.1 isn't working anyway
- don't need explicit FB/PG exclusions in test_returning
- hit db.connect() for the returning requirement
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.
can now provide "bind expressions" and
"column expressions" which allow compile-time
injection of SQL expressions into statements
on a per-column or per-bind level. This is
to suit the use case of a type which needs
to augment bind- and result- behavior at the
SQL level, as opposed to in the Python level.
Allows for schemes like transparent encryption/
decryption, usage of Postgis functions, etc.
[ticket:1534]
- update postgis example fully.
- still need to repair the result map propagation
here to be transparent for cases like "labeled column".
Mike Bayer