Release: 2.1.0b1 | Release Date: January 21, 2026

# SQLAlchemy 2.1 Documentation

# 2.0 Changelog

## 2.0.50

no release date

## 2.0.49

Released: April 3, 2026

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where `Session.get()` would bypass the identity map and emit unnecessary SQL when `with_for_update=False` was passed, rather than treating it equivalently to the default of `None`. Pull request courtesy of Joshua Swanson.

  References: #13176

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where chained `joinedload()` options would not be applied correctly when the final relationship in the chain is declared on a base mapper and accessed through a subclass mapper in a `with_polymorphic()` query. The path registry now correctly computes the natural path when a property declared on a base class is accessed through a path containing a subclass mapper, ensuring the loader option can be located during query compilation.

  References: #13193

- [orm] [bug] [inheritance]

  Fixed issue where using `Load.options()` to apply a chained loader option such as `joinedload()` or `selectinload()` with `PropComparator.of_type()` for a polymorphic relationship would not generate the necessary clauses for the polymorphic subclasses. The polymorphic loading strategy is now correctly propagated when using a call such as `joinedload(A.b).options(joinedload(B.c.of_type(poly)))` to match the behavior of direct chaining e.g. `joinedload(A.b).joinedload(B.c.of_type(poly))`.

  References: #13202

- [orm] [bug] [inheritance]

  Fixed issue where using chained loader options such as `selectinload()` after `joinedload()` with `PropComparator.of_type()` for a polymorphic relationship would not properly apply the chained loader option. The loader option is now correctly applied when using a call such as `joinedload(A.b.of_type(poly)).selectinload(poly.SubClass.c)` to eagerly load related objects.

  References: #13209

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed a typing issue where the typed members of `func` would return the appropriate class of the same name, however this creates an issue for typecheckers such as Zuban and pyrefly that assume PEP 749 style typechecking even if the file states that it’s a PEP 563 file; they see the returned name as indicating the method object and not the class object. These typecheckers are actually following along with an upcoming test harness that insists on PEP 749 style name resolution for this case unconditionally. Since PEP 749 is the way of the future regardless, differently-named type aliases have been added for these return types.

  References: #13167

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed regular expression used when reflecting foreign keys in PostgreSQL to support escaped quotes in table names. Pull request courtesy of Austin Graham

  References: #10902

### mssql

- [mssql] [usecase]

  Enhanced the `aioodbc` dialect to expose the `fast_executemany` attribute of the pyodbc cursor. This allows the `fast_executemany` parameter to work with the `mssql+aioodbc` dialect. Pull request courtesy Georg Sieber.

  References: #13152

- [mssql] [usecase]

  Remove warning for SQL Server dialect when a new version is detected. The warning was originally added more than 15 years ago due to an unexpected value returned when using an old version of FreeTDS. The assumption is that since then the issue has been resolved, so make the SQL Server dialect behave like the other ones that don’t have an upper bound check on the version number.

  References: #13185

- [mssql] [bug] [reflection]

  Fixed regression from version 2.0.42 caused by #12654 where the updated column reflection query would receive SQL Server “type alias” names for special types such as `sysname`, whereas previously the base name would be received (e.g. `nvarchar` for `sysname`), leading to warnings that such types could not be reflected and resulting in `NullType`, rather than the expected `NVARCHAR` for a type like `sysname`. The column reflection query now joins `sys.types` a second time to look up the base type when the user type name is not present in `MSDialect.ischema_names`, and both names are checked in `MSDialect.ischema_names` for a match. Pull request courtesy Carlos Serrano.

  References: #13181, #13182

### oracle

- [oracle] [bug]

  Fixed issue in Oracle dialect where the `RAW` datatype would not reflect the length parameter. Pull request courtesy Daniel Sullivan.

  References: #13150

## 2.0.48

Released: March 2, 2026

### engine

- [engine] [bug]

  Fixed a critical issue in `Engine` where connections created in conjunction with the `DialectEvents.do_connect()` event listeners would receive shared, mutable collections for the connection arguments, leading to a variety of potential issues including unlimited growth of the argument list as well as elements within the parameter dictionary being shared among concurrent connection calls. In particular this could impact do_connect routines making use of complex mutable authentication structures.

  References: #13144

## 2.0.47

Released: February 24, 2026

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue when using ORM mappings with Python 3.14’s PEP 649 feature that no longer requires “future annotations”, where the ORM’s introspection of the `__init__` method of mapped classes would fail if non-present identifiers in annotations were present. The vendored `getfullargspec()` method has been amended to use `Format.FORWARDREF` under Python 3.14 to prevent resolution of names that aren’t present.

  References: #13104

### engine

- [engine] [usecase]

  The connection object returned by `Engine.raw_connection()` now supports the context manager protocol, automatically returning the connection to the pool when exiting the context.

  References: #13116

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed an issue in the PostgreSQL dialect where foreign key constraint reflection would incorrectly swap or fail to capture `onupdate` and `ondelete` values when these clauses appeared in a different order than expected in the constraint definition. This issue primarily affected PostgreSQL-compatible databases such as CockroachDB, which may return `ON DELETE` before `ON UPDATE` in the constraint definition string. The reflection logic now correctly parses both clauses regardless of their ordering.

  References: #13105

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed issue in the “Insert Many Values” Behavior for INSERT statements feature where using PostgreSQL’s `ON CONFLICT` clause with `Insert.returning.sort_by_parameter_order` enabled would generate invalid SQL when the insert used an implicit sentinel (server-side autoincrement primary key). The generated SQL would incorrectly declare a sentinel counter column in the `imp_sen` table alias without providing corresponding values in the `VALUES` clause, leading to a `ProgrammingError` indicating column count mismatch. The fix allows batch execution mode when `embed_values_counter` is active, as the embedded counter provides the ordering capability needed even with upsert behaviors, rather than unnecessarily downgrading to row-at-a-time execution.

  References: #13107

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where `Insert.on_conflict_do_update()` parameters were not respecting compilation options such as `literal_binds=True`. Pull request courtesy Loïc Simon.

  References: #13110

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where `Insert.on_conflict_do_update()` using parametrized bound parameters in the `set_` clause would fail when used with executemany batching. For dialects that use the `use_insertmanyvalues_wo_returning` optimization (psycopg2), insertmanyvalues is now disabled when there is an ON CONFLICT clause. For cases with RETURNING, row-at-a-time mode is used when the SET clause contains parametrized bindparams (bindparams that receive values from the parameters dict), ensuring each row’s parameters are correctly applied. ON CONFLICT statements using expressions like `excluded.<column>` continue to batch normally.

  References: #13130

### mysql

- [mysql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where DDL compilation options were registered to the hard-coded dialect name `mysql`. This made it awkward for MySQL-derived dialects like MariaDB, StarRocks, etc. to work with such options when different sets of options exist for different platforms. Options are now registered under the actual dialect name, and a fallback was added to help avoid errors when an option does not exist for that dialect.

  To maintain backwards compatibility, when using the MariaDB dialect with the options `mysql_with_parser` or `mysql_using` without also specifying the corresponding `mariadb_` prefixed options, a deprecation warning will be emitted. The `mysql_` prefixed options will continue to work during the deprecation period. Users should update their code to additionally specify `mariadb_with_parser` and `mariadb_using` when using the `mariadb://` dialect, or specify both options to support both dialects.

  Pull request courtesy Tiansu Yu.

  References: #13134

### sqlite

- [sqlite] [bug]

  Fixed issue where `Insert.on_conflict_do_update()` parameters were not respecting compilation options such as `literal_binds=True`. Pull request courtesy Loïc Simon.

  References: #13110

- [sqlite] [bug]

  Fixed issue where `Insert.on_conflict_do_update()` using parametrized bound parameters in the `set_` clause would fail when used with executemany batching. Row-at-a-time mode is now used for ON CONFLICT statements with RETURNING that contain parametrized bindparams, ensuring each row’s parameters are correctly applied. ON CONFLICT statements using expressions like `excluded.<column>` continue to batch normally.

  References: #13130

## 2.0.46

Released: January 21, 2026

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing issues where ORM mapped classes and aliased entities could not be used as keys in result row mappings or as join targets in select statements. Patterns such as `row._mapping[User]`, `row._mapping[aliased(User)]`, `row._mapping[with_polymorphic(...)]` (rejected by both mypy and Pylance), and `.join(aliased(User))` (rejected by Pylance) are documented and fully supported at runtime but were previously rejected by type checkers. The type definitions for `_KeyType` and `_FromClauseArgument` have been updated to accept these ORM entity types.

  References: #13075

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where PostgreSQL JSONB operators `Comparator.path_match()` and `Comparator.path_exists()` were applying incorrect `VARCHAR` casts to the right-hand side operand when used with newer PostgreSQL drivers such as psycopg. The operators now indicate the right-hand type as `JSONPATH`, which currently results in no casting taking place, but is also compatible with explicit casts if the implementation were require it at a later point.

  References: #13059

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed regression in PostgreSQL dialect where JSONB subscription syntax would generate incorrect SQL for `cast()` expressions returning JSONB, causing syntax errors. The dialect now properly wraps cast expressions in parentheses when using the `[]` subscription syntax, generating `(CAST(...))[index]` instead of `CAST(...)[index]` to comply with PostgreSQL syntax requirements. This extends the fix from #12778 which addressed the same issue for function calls.

  References: #13067

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Improved the foreign key reflection regular expression pattern used by the PostgreSQL dialect to be more permissive in matching identifier characters, allowing it to correctly handle unicode characters in table and column names. This change improves compatibility with PostgreSQL variants such as CockroachDB that may use different quoting patterns in combination with unicode characters in their identifiers. Pull request courtesy Gord Thompson.

### mariadb

- [mariadb] [bug]

  Fixed the SQL compilation for the mariadb sequence “NOCYCLE” keyword that is to be emitted when the `Sequence.cycle` parameter is set to False on a `Sequence`. Pull request courtesy Diego Dupin.

  References: #13070

### sqlite

- [sqlite] [bug]

  Fixed issue in the aiosqlite driver where SQLAlchemy’s setting of aiosqlite’s worker thread to “daemon” stopped working because the aiosqlite architecture moved the location of the worker thread in version 0.22.0. This “daemon” flag is necessary so that a program is able to exit if the SQLite connection itself was not explicitly closed, which is particularly likely with SQLAlchemy as it maintains SQLite connections in a connection pool. While it’s perfectly fine to call `AsyncEngine.dispose()` before program exit, this is not historically or technically necessary for any driver of any known backend, since a primary feature of relational databases is durability. The change also implements support for “terminate” with aiosqlite when using version version 0.22.1 or greater, which implements a sync `.stop()` method.

  References: #13039

### mssql

- [mssql] [usecase]

  Added support for the `IF EXISTS` clause when dropping indexes on SQL Server 2016 (13.x) and later versions. The `DropIndex.if_exists` parameter is now honored by the SQL Server dialect, allowing conditional index drops that will not raise an error if the index does not exist. Pull request courtesy Edgar Ramírez Mondragón.

  References: #13045

## 2.0.45

Released: December 9, 2025

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where calling `Mapper.add_property()` within mapper event hooks such as `MapperEvents.instrument_class()`, `MapperEvents.after_mapper_constructed()`, or `MapperEvents.before_mapper_configured()` would raise an `AttributeError` because the mapper’s internal property collections were not yet initialized. The `Mapper.add_property()` method now handles early-stage property additions correctly, allowing properties including column properties, deferred columns, and relationships to be added during mapper initialization events. Pull request courtesy G Allajmi.

  References: #12858

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue in Python 3.14 where dataclass transformation would fail when a mapped class using `MappedAsDataclass` included a `relationship()` referencing a class that was not available at runtime (e.g., within a `TYPE_CHECKING` block). This occurred when using Python 3.14’s PEP 649 deferred annotations feature, which is the default behavior without a `from __future__ import annotations` directive.

  References: #12952

### examples

- [examples] [bug]

  Fixed the “short_selects” performance example where the cache was being used in all the examples, making it impossible to compare performance with and without the cache. Less important comparisons like “lambdas” and “baked queries” have been removed.

### sql

- [sql] [bug]

  Some improvements to the `ClauseElement.params()` method to replace bound parameters in a query were made, however the ultimate issue in #12915 involving ORM `aliased()` cannot be fixed fully until 2.1, where the method is being rewritten to work without relying on Core cloned traversal.

  References: #12915

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where using the `ColumnOperators.in_()` operator with a nested `CompoundSelect` statement (e.g. an `INTERSECT` of `UNION` queries) would raise a `NotImplementedError` when the nested compound select was the first argument to the outer compound select. The `_scalar_type()` internal method now properly handles nested compound selects.

  References: #12987

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing issue where `Select.with_for_update()` would not support lists of ORM entities or other FROM clauses in the `Select.with_for_update.of` parameter. Pull request courtesy Shamil.

  References: #12730

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing issue where `coalesce` would not return the correct return type when a nullable form of that argument were passed, even though this function is meant to select the non-null entry among possibly null arguments. Pull request courtesy Yannick PÉROUX.

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  Added support for reflection of collation in types for PostgreSQL. The `collation` will be set only if different from the default one for the type. Pull request courtesy Denis Laxalde.

  References: #6511

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where PostgreSQL dialect options such as `postgresql_include` on `PrimaryKeyConstraint` and `UniqueConstraint` were rendered in the wrong position when combined with constraint deferrability options like `deferrable=True`. Pull request courtesy G Allajmi.

  References: #12867

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed the structure of the SQL string used for the “Insert Many Values” Behavior for INSERT statements feature when an explicit sequence with `nextval()` is used. The SQL function invocation for the sequence has been moved from being rendered inline within each tuple inside of VALUES to being rendered once in the SELECT that reads from VALUES. This change ensures the function is invoked in the correct order as rows are processed, rather than assuming PostgreSQL will execute inline function calls within VALUES in a particular order. While current PostgreSQL versions appear to handle the previous approach correctly, the database does not guarantee this behavior for future versions.

  References: #13015

### mysql

- [mysql] [usecase]

  Added support for MySQL 8.0.1 + `FOR SHARE` to be emitted for the `Select.with_for_update()` method, which offers compatibility with `NOWAIT` and `SKIP LOCKED`. The new syntax is used only for MySQL when version 8.0.1 or higher is detected. Pull request courtesy JetDrag.

  References: #12964

### sqlite

- [sqlite] [bug] [reflection]

  A series of improvements have been made for reflection of CHECK constraints on SQLite. The reflection logic now correctly handles table names containing the strings “CHECK” or “CONSTRAINT”, properly supports all four SQLite identifier quoting styles (double quotes, single quotes, brackets, and backticks) for constraint names, and accurately parses CHECK constraint expressions containing parentheses within string literals using balanced parenthesis matching with string context tracking. Big thanks to GruzdevAV for new test cases and implementation ideas.

  References: #12924

- [sqlite] [bug]

  Fixed issue where SQLite dialect would fail to reflect constraint names that contained uppercase letters or other characters requiring quoting. The regular expressions used to parse primary key, foreign key, and unique constraint names from the `CREATE TABLE` statement have been updated to properly handle both quoted and unquoted constraint names.

  References: #12954

### tests

- [tests] [change]

  A noxfile.py has been added to allow testing with nox. This is a direct port of 2.1’s move to nox, however leaves the tox.ini file in place and retains all test documentation in terms of tox. Version 2.1 will move to nox fully, including deprecation warnings for tox and new testing documentation.

## 2.0.44

Released: October 10, 2025

### platform

- [platform] [bug]

  Unblocked automatic greenlet installation for Python 3.14 now that there are greenlet wheels on pypi for python 3.14.

### orm

- [orm] [usecase]

  The way ORM Annotated Declarative interprets Python PEP 695 type aliases in `Mapped[]` annotations has been refined to expand the lookup scheme. A PEP 695 type can now be resolved based on either its direct presence in `registry.type_annotation_map` or its immediate resolved value, as long as a recursive lookup across multiple PEP 695 types is not required for it to resolve. This change reverses part of the restrictions introduced in 2.0.37 as part of #11955, which deprecated (and disallowed in 2.1) the ability to resolve any PEP 695 type that was not explicitly present in `registry.type_annotation_map`. Recursive lookups of PEP 695 types remains deprecated in 2.0 and disallowed in version 2.1, as do implicit lookups of `NewType` types without an entry in `registry.type_annotation_map`.

  Additionally, new support has been added for generic PEP 695 aliases that refer to PEP 593 `Annotated` constructs containing `mapped_column()` configurations. See the sections below for examples.

  See also

  Support for Type Alias Types (defined by PEP 695) and NewType

  Mapping Whole Column Declarations to Generic Python Types

  References: #12829

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed a caching issue where `with_loader_criteria()` would incorrectly reuse cached bound parameter values when used with `CompoundSelect` constructs such as `union()`. The issue was caused by the cache key for compound selects not including the execution options that are part of the `Executable` base class, which `with_loader_criteria()` uses to apply its criteria dynamically. The fix ensures that compound selects and other executable constructs properly include execution options in their cache key traversal.

  References: #12905

### engine

- [engine] [bug]

  Implemented initial support for free-threaded Python by adding new tests and reworking the test harness to include Python 3.13t and Python 3.14t in test runs. Two concurrency issues have been identified and fixed: the first involves initialization of the `.c` collection on a `FromClause`, a continuation of #12302, where an optional mutex under free-threading is added; the second involves synchronization of the pool “first_connect” event, which first received thread synchronization in #2964, however under free-threading the creation of the mutex itself runs under the same free-threading mutex. Support for free-threaded wheels on Pypi is implemented as well within the 2.1 series only. Initial pull request and test suite courtesy Lysandros Nikolaou.

  References: #12881

### sql

- [sql] [bug]

  Improved the implementation of `UpdateBase.returning()` to use more robust logic in setting up the `.c` collection of a derived statement such as a CTE. This fixes issues related to RETURNING clauses that feature expressions based on returned columns with or without qualifying labels.

  References: #12271

### schema

- [schema] [bug]

  Fixed issue where `MetaData.reflect()` did not forward dialect-specific keyword arguments to the `Inspector` methods, causing options like `oracle_resolve_synonyms` to be ignored during reflection. The method now ensures that all extra kwargs passed to `MetaData.reflect()` are forwarded to `Inspector.get_table_names()` and related reflection methods. Pull request courtesy Lukáš Kožušník.

  References: #12884

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing bug where the `Session.execute()` method advertised that it would return a `CursorResult` if given an insert/update/delete statement. This is not the general case as several flavors of ORM insert/update do not actually yield a `CursorResult` which cannot be differentiated at the typing overload level, so the method now yields `Result` in all cases. For those cases where `CursorResult` is known to be returned and the `.rowcount` attribute is required, please use `typing.cast()`.

  References: #12813

- [typing] [bug]

  Added new decorator `mapped_as_dataclass()`, which is a function based form of `registry.mapped_as_dataclass()`; the method form `registry.mapped_as_dataclass()` does not seem to be correctly recognized within the scope of PEP 681 in recent mypy versions.

  References: #12855

### asyncio

- [asyncio] [usecase]

  Generalize the terminate logic employed by the asyncpg dialect to reuse it in the aiomysql and asyncmy dialect implementation.

  References: #12273

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where selecting an enum array column containing NULL values would fail to parse properly in the PostgreSQL dialect. The `_split_enum_values()` function now correctly handles NULL entries by converting them to Python `None` values.

  References: #12847

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where the `any_()` and `all_()` aggregation operators would not correctly coerce the datatype of the compared value, in those cases where the compared value were not a simple int/str etc., such as a Python `Enum` or other custom value. This would lead to execution time errors for these values. This issue is essentially the same as #6515 which was for the now-legacy `ARRAY.any()` and `ARRAY.all()` methods.

  References: #12874

### sqlite

- [sqlite] [bug]

  Fixed issue where SQLite table reflection would fail for tables using `WITHOUT ROWID` and/or `STRICT` table options when the table contained generated columns. The regular expression used to parse `CREATE TABLE` statements for generated column detection has been updated to properly handle these SQLite table options that appear after the column definitions. Pull request courtesy Tip ten Brink.

  References: #12864

### mssql

- [mssql] [bug]

  Improved the base implementation of the asyncio cursor such that it includes the option for the underlying driver’s cursor to be actively closed in those cases where it requires `await` in order to complete the close sequence, rather than relying on garbage collection to “close” it, when a plain `Result` is returned that does not use `await` for any of its methods. The previous approach of relying on gc was fine for MySQL and SQLite dialects but has caused problems with the aioodbc implementation on top of SQL Server. The new option is enabled for those dialects which have an “awaitable” `cursor.close()`, which includes the aioodbc, aiomysql, and asyncmy dialects (aiosqlite is also modified for 2.1 only).

  References: #12798

- [mssql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where the index reflection for SQL Server would not correctly return the order of the column inside an index when the order of the columns in the index did not match the order of the columns in the table. Pull request courtesy of Allen Chen.

  References: #12894

- [mssql] [bug] [reflection]

  Fixed issue in the MSSQL dialect’s foreign key reflection query where duplicate rows could be returned when a foreign key column and its referenced primary key column have the same name, and both the referencing and referenced tables have indexes with the same name. This resulted in an “ForeignKeyConstraint with duplicate source column references are not supported” error when attempting to reflect such tables. The query has been corrected to exclude indexes on the child table when looking for unique indexes referenced by foreign keys.

  References: #12907

### misc

- [bug] [ext]

  Fixed issue caused by an unwanted functional change while typing the `MutableList` class. This change also reverts all other functional changes done in the same change.

  References: #12802

## 2.0.43

Released: August 11, 2025

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where using the `post_update` feature would apply incorrect “pre-fetched” values to the ORM objects after a multi-row UPDATE process completed. These “pre-fetched” values would come from any column that had an `Column.onupdate` callable or a version id generator used by `Mapper.version_id_generator`; for a version id generator that delivered random identifiers like timestamps or UUIDs, this incorrect data would lead to a DELETE statement against those same rows to fail in the next step.

  References: #12748

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where `mapped_column.use_existing_column` parameter in `mapped_column()` would not work when the `mapped_column()` is used inside of an `Annotated` type alias in polymorphic inheritance scenarios. The parameter is now properly recognized and processed during declarative mapping configuration.

  References: #12787

- [orm] [bug]

  Improved the implementation of the `selectin_polymorphic()` inheritance loader strategy to properly render the IN expressions using chunks of 500 records each, in the same manner as that of the `selectinload()` relationship loader strategy. Previously, the IN expression would be arbitrarily large, leading to failures on databases that have limits on the size of IN expressions including Oracle Database.

  References: #12790

### engine

- [engine] [usecase]

  Added new parameter `create_engine.skip_autocommit_rollback` which provides for a per-dialect feature of preventing the DBAPI `.rollback()` from being called under any circumstances, if the connection is detected as being in “autocommit” mode. This improves upon a critical performance issue identified in MySQL dialects where the network overhead of the `.rollback()` call remains prohibitive even if autocommit mode is set.

  See also

  Fully preventing ROLLBACK calls under autocommit

  References: #12784

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed regression in PostgreSQL dialect where JSONB subscription syntax would generate incorrect SQL for JSONB-returning functions, causing syntax errors. The dialect now properly wraps function calls and expressions in parentheses when using the `[]` subscription syntax, generating `(function_call)[index]` instead of `function_call[index]` to comply with PostgreSQL syntax requirements.

  References: #12778

### oracle

- [oracle] [usecase]

  Extended `VECTOR` to support sparse vectors. This update introduces `VectorStorageType` to specify sparse or dense storage and added `SparseVector`. Pull request courtesy Suraj Shaw.

  References: #12711

## 2.0.42

Released: July 29, 2025

### orm

- [orm] [usecase]

  Added `dataclass_metadata` argument to all ORM attribute constructors that accept dataclasses parameters, e.g. `mapped_column.dataclass_metadata`, `relationship.dataclass_metadata`, etc. It’s passed to the underlying dataclass `metadata` attribute of the dataclass field. Pull request courtesy Sigmund Lahn.

  References: #10674

- [orm] [bug]

  Implemented the `defer()`, `undefer()` and `load_only()` loader options to work for composite attributes, a use case that had never been supported previously.

  References: #12593

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed bug where the ORM would pull in the wrong column into an UPDATE when a key name inside of the `ValuesBase.values()` method could be located from an ORM entity mentioned in the statement, but where that ORM entity was not the actual table that the statement was inserting or updating. An extra check for this edge case is added to avoid this problem.

  References: #12692

### engine

- [engine]

  Improved validation of execution parameters passed to the `Connection.execute()` and similar methods to provided a better error when tuples are passed in. Previously the execution would fail with a difficult to understand error message.

### sql

- [sql] [usecase]

  The `values()` construct gains a new method `Values.cte()`, which allows creation of a named, explicit-columns `CTE` against an unnamed `VALUES` expression, producing a syntax that allows column-oriented selection from a `VALUES` construct on modern versions of PostgreSQL, SQLite, and MariaDB.

  References: #12734

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where `select()` of a free-standing scalar expression that has a unary operator applied, such as negation, would not apply result processors to the selected column even though the correct type remains in place for the unary expression.

  References: #12681

- [sql] [bug]

  Hardening of the compiler’s actions for UPDATE statements that access multiple tables to report more specifically when tables or aliases are referenced in the SET clause; on cases where the backend does not support secondary tables in the SET clause, an explicit error is raised, and on the MySQL or similar backends that support such a SET clause, more specific checking for not-properly-included tables is performed. Overall the change is preventing these erroneous forms of UPDATE statements from being compiled, whereas previously it was relied on the database to raise an error, which was not always guaranteed to happen, or to be non-ambiguous, due to cases where the parent table included the same column name as the secondary table column being updated.

  References: #12692

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  Added support for PostgreSQL 14+ `JSONB` subscripting syntax. When connected to PostgreSQL 14 or later, JSONB columns now automatically use the native subscript notation `jsonb_col['key']` instead of the arrow operator `jsonb_col -> 'key'` for both read and write operations. This provides better compatibility with PostgreSQL’s native JSONB subscripting feature while maintaining backward compatibility with older PostgreSQL versions. JSON columns continue to use the traditional arrow syntax regardless of PostgreSQL version.

  Warning

  For applications that have indexes against JSONB subscript expressions

  This change caused an unintended side effect for indexes that were created against expressions that use subscript notation, e.g. `Index("ix_entity_json_ab_text", data["a"]["b"].astext)`. If these indexes were generated with the older syntax e.g. `((entity.data -> 'a') ->> 'b')`, they will not be used by the PostgreSQL query planner when a query is made using SQLAlchemy 2.0.42 or higher on PostgreSQL versions 14 or higher. This occurs because the new text will resemble `(entity.data['a'] ->> 'b')` which will fail to produce the exact textual syntax match required by the PostgreSQL query planner. Therefore, for users upgrading to SQLAlchemy 2.0.42 or higher, existing indexes that were created against `JSONB` expressions that use subscripting would need to be dropped and re-created in order for them to work with the new query syntax, e.g. an expression like `((entity.data -> 'a') ->> 'b')` would become `(entity.data['a'] ->> 'b')`.

  See also

  #12868 - discussion of this issue

  References: #10927

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  Added `postgresql_ops` key to the `dialect_options` entry in reflected dictionary. This maps names of columns used in the index to respective operator class, if distinct from the default one for column’s data type. Pull request courtesy Denis Laxalde.

  See also

  Operator Classes

  References: #8664

- [postgresql] [bug] [reflection]

  Fixed regression caused by #10665 where the newly modified constraint reflection query would fail on older versions of PostgreSQL such as version 9.6. Pull request courtesy Denis Laxalde.

  References: #12600

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Re-raise caught `CancelledError` in the terminate method of the asyncpg dialect to avoid possible hangs of the code execution.

  References: #12728

- [postgresql] [bug] [reflection]

  Fixes bug that would mistakenly interpret a domain or enum type with name starting in `interval` as an `INTERVAL` type while reflecting a table.

  References: #12744

### mysql

- [mysql] [bug]

  Fixed yet another regression caused by by the DEFAULT rendering changes in 2.0.40 #12425, similar to #12488, this time where using a CURRENT_TIMESTAMP function with a fractional seconds portion inside a textual default value would also fail to be recognized as a non-parenthesized server default.

  References: #12648

### mssql

- [mssql] [bug]

  Reworked SQL Server column reflection to be based on the `sys.columns` table rather than `information_schema.columns` view. By correctly using the SQL Server `object_id()` function as a lead and joining to related tables on object_id rather than names, this repairs a variety of issues in SQL Server reflection, including:

  - Issue where reflected column comments would not correctly line up with the columns themselves in the case that the table had been ALTERed

  - Correctly targets tables with awkward names such as names with brackets, when reflecting not just the basic table / columns but also extended information including IDENTITY, computed columns, comments which did not work previously

  - Correctly targets IDENTITY, computed status from temporary tables which did not work previously

  References: #12654

## 2.0.41

Released: May 14, 2025

### platform

- [platform] [bug]

  Adjusted the test suite as well as the ORM’s method of scanning classes for annotations to work under current beta releases of Python 3.14 (currently 3.14.0b1) as part of an ongoing effort to support the production release of this Python release. Further changes to Python’s means of working with annotations is expected in subsequent beta releases for which SQLAlchemy’s test suite will need further adjustments.

  References: #12405

### engine

- [engine] [bug]

  The error message that is emitted when a URL cannot be parsed no longer includes the URL itself within the error message.

  References: #12579

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Removed `__getattr__()` rule from `sqlalchemy/__init__.py` that appeared to be trying to correct for a previous typographical error in the imports. This rule interferes with type checking and is removed.

  References: #12588

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  Added support for `postgresql_include` keyword argument to `UniqueConstraint` and `PrimaryKeyConstraint`. Pull request courtesy Denis Laxalde.

  See also

  PostgreSQL Constraint Options

  References: #10665

### mysql

- [mysql] [bug]

  Fixed regression caused by the DEFAULT rendering changes in version 2.0.40 via #12425 where using lowercase `on update` in a MySQL server default would incorrectly apply parenthesis, leading to errors when MySQL interpreted the rendered DDL. Pull request courtesy Alexander Ruehe.

  References: #12488

### sqlite

- [sqlite] [bug]

  Fixed and added test support for some SQLite SQL functions hardcoded into the compiler, most notably the `localtimestamp` function which rendered with incorrect internal quoting.

  References: #12566

### oracle

- [oracle] [usecase]

  Added new datatype `VECTOR` and accompanying DDL and DQL support to fully support this type for Oracle Database. This change includes the base `VECTOR` type that adds new type-specific methods `l2_distance`, `cosine_distance`, `inner_product` as well as new parameters `oracle_vector` for the `Index` construct, allowing vector indexes to be configured, and `oracle_fetch_approximate` for the `Select.fetch()` clause. Pull request courtesy Suraj Shaw.

  See also

  VECTOR Datatype

  References: #12317, #12341

### misc

- [bug] [installation]

  Removed the “license classifier” from setup.cfg for SQLAlchemy 2.0, which eliminates loud deprecation warnings when building the package. SQLAlchemy 2.1 will use a full PEP 639 configuration in pyproject.toml while SQLAlchemy 2.0 remains using `setup.cfg` for setup.

## 2.0.40

Released: March 27, 2025

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed regression which occurred as of 2.0.37 where the checked `ArgumentError` that’s raised when an inappropriate type or object is used inside of a `Mapped` annotation would raise `TypeError` with “boolean value of this clause is not defined” if the object resolved into a SQL expression in a boolean context, for programs where future annotations mode was not enabled. This case is now handled explicitly and a new error message has also been tailored for this case. In addition, as there are at least half a dozen distinct error scenarios for interpretation of the `Mapped` construct, these scenarios have all been unified under a new subclass of `ArgumentError` called `MappedAnnotationError`, to provide some continuity between these different scenarios, even though specific messaging remains distinct.

  References: #12329

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed regression in ORM Annotated Declarative class interpretation caused by `typing_extension==4.13.0` that introduced a different implementation for `TypeAliasType` while SQLAlchemy assumed that it would be equivalent to the `typing` version, leading to pep-695 type annotations not resolving to SQL types as expected.

  References: #12473

### sql

- [sql] [usecase]

  Implemented support for the GROUPS frame specification in window functions by adding `over.groups` option to `over()` and `FunctionElement.over()`. Pull request courtesy Kaan Dikmen.

  References: #12450

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed issue in `CTE` constructs involving multiple DDL `Insert` statements with multiple VALUES parameter sets where the bound parameter names generated for these parameter sets would conflict, generating a compile time error.

  References: #12363

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed regression caused by #7471 leading to a SQL compilation issue where name disambiguation for two same-named FROM clauses with table aliasing in use at the same time would produce invalid SQL in the FROM clause with two “AS” clauses for the aliased table, due to double aliasing.

  References: #12451

### asyncio

- [asyncio] [bug]

  Fixed issue where `AsyncSession.get_transaction()` and `AsyncSession.get_nested_transaction()` would fail with `NotImplementedError` if the “proxy transaction” used by `AsyncSession` were garbage collected and needed regeneration.

  References: #12471

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  Added support for specifying a list of columns for `SET NULL` and `SET DEFAULT` actions of `ON DELETE` clause of foreign key definition on PostgreSQL. Pull request courtesy Denis Laxalde.

  See also

  PostgreSQL Constraint Options

  References: #11595

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  When building a PostgreSQL `ARRAY` literal using `array` with an empty `clauses` argument, the `array.type_` parameter is now significant in that it will be used to render the resulting `ARRAY[]` SQL expression with a cast, such as `ARRAY[]::INTEGER`. Pull request courtesy Denis Laxalde.

  References: #12432

### mysql

- [mysql] [bug]

  Support has been re-added for the MySQL-Connector/Python DBAPI using the `mysql+mysqlconnector://` URL scheme. The DBAPI now works against modern MySQL versions as well as MariaDB versions (in the latter case it’s required to pass charset/collation explicitly). Note however that server side cursor support is disabled due to unresolved issues with this driver.

  References: #12332

- [mysql] [bug]

  Fixed issue in MySQL server default reflection where a default that has spaces would not be correctly reflected. Additionally, expanded the rules for when to apply parenthesis to a server default in DDL to suit the general case of a default string that contains non-word characters such as spaces or operators and is not a string literal.

  References: #12425

### sqlite

- [sqlite] [bug]

  Expanded the rules for when to apply parenthesis to a server default in DDL to suit the general case of a default string that contains non-word characters such as spaces or operators and is not a string literal.

  References: #12425

## 2.0.39

Released: March 11, 2025

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed bug where using DML returning such as `Insert.returning()` with an ORM model that has `column_property()` constructs that contain subqueries would fail with an internal error.

  References: #12326

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed bug in ORM enabled UPDATE (and theoretically DELETE) where using a multi-table DML statement would not allow ORM mapped columns from mappers other than the primary UPDATE mapper to be named in the RETURNING clause; they would be omitted instead and cause a column not found exception.

  References: #12328

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where the “is ORM” flag of a `select()` or other ORM statement would not be propagated to the ORM `Session` based on a multi-part operator expression alone, e.g. such as `Cls.attr + Cls.attr + Cls.attr` or similar, leading to ORM behaviors not taking place for such statements.

  References: #12357

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where using `aliased()` around a `CTE` construct could cause inappropriate “duplicate CTE” errors in cases where that aliased construct appeared multiple times in a single statement.

  References: #12364

### sql

- [sql] [bug]

  Added new parameters `AddConstraint.isolate_from_table` and `DropConstraint.isolate_from_table`, defaulting to True, which both document and allow to be controllable the long-standing behavior of these two constructs blocking the given constraint from being included inline within the “CREATE TABLE” sequence, under the assumption that separate add/drop directives were to be used.

  References: #12382

### typing

- [typing] [usecase]

  Support generic types for compound selects (`union()`, `union_all()`, `Select.union()`, `Select.union_all()`, etc) returning the type of the first select. Pull request courtesy of Mingyu Park.

  References: #11922

### asyncio

- [asyncio] [bug]

  Fixed bug where `AsyncResult.scalar()`, `AsyncResult.scalar_one_or_none()`, and `AsyncResult.scalar_one()` would raise an `AttributeError` due to a missing internal attribute. Pull request courtesy Allen Ho.

  References: #12338

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Add SQL typing to reflection query used to retrieve a the structure of IDENTITY columns, adding explicit JSON typing to the query to suit unusual PostgreSQL driver configurations that don’t support JSON natively.

  References: #11751

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed issue affecting PostgreSQL 17.3 and greater where reflection of domains with “NOT NULL” as part of their definition would include an invalid constraint entry in the data returned by `PGInspector.get_domains()` corresponding to an additional “NOT NULL” constraint that isn’t a CHECK constraint; the existing `"nullable"` entry in the dictionary already indicates if the domain includes a “not null” constraint. Note that such domains also cannot be reflected on PostgreSQL 17.0 through 17.2 due to a bug on the PostgreSQL side; if encountering errors in reflection of domains which include NOT NULL, upgrade to PostgreSQL server 17.3 or greater.

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed issue in PostgreSQL network types `INET`, `CIDR`, `MACADDR`, `MACADDR8` where sending string values to compare to these types would render an explicit CAST to VARCHAR, causing some SQL / driver combinations to fail. Pull request courtesy Denis Laxalde.

  References: #12060

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed compiler issue in the PostgreSQL dialect where incorrect keywords would be passed when using “FOR UPDATE OF” inside of a subquery.

  References: #12417

### sqlite

- [sqlite] [bug]

  Fixed issue that omitted the comma between multiple SQLite table extension clauses, currently `WITH ROWID` and `STRICT`, when both options `Table.sqlite_with_rowid` and `Table.sqlite_strict` were configured at their non-default settings at the same time. Pull request courtesy david-fed.

  References: #12368

## 2.0.38

Released: February 6, 2025

### engine

- [engine] [bug]

  Fixed event-related issue where invoking `Engine.execution_options()` on a `Engine` multiple times while making use of event-registering parameters such as `isolation_level` would lead to internal errors involving event registration.

  References: #12289

### sql

- [sql] [bug]

  Reorganized the internals by which the `.c` collection on a `FromClause` gets generated so that it is resilient against the collection being accessed in concurrent fashion. An example is creating a `Alias` or `Subquery` and accessing it as a module level variable. This impacts the Oracle dialect which uses such module-level global alias objects but is of general use as well.

  References: #12302

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed SQL composition bug which impacted caching where using a `None` value inside of an `in_()` expression would bypass the usual “expanded bind parameter” logic used by the IN construct, which allows proper caching to take place.

  References: #12314

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [usecase] [asyncio]

  Added an additional `asyncio.shield()` call within the connection terminate process of the asyncpg driver, to mitigate an issue where terminate would be prevented from completing under the anyio concurrency library.

  References: #12077

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Adjusted the asyncpg connection wrapper so that the `connection.transaction()` call sent to asyncpg sends `None` for `isolation_level` if not otherwise set in the SQLAlchemy dialect/wrapper, thereby allowing asyncpg to make use of the server level setting for `isolation_level` in the absence of a client-level setting. Previously, this behavior of asyncpg was blocked by a hardcoded `read_committed`.

  References: #12159

### mariadb

- [mariadb] [bug] [dml] [mysql]

  Fixed a bug where the MySQL statement compiler would not properly compile statements where `Insert.on_duplicate_key_update()` was passed values that included ORM-mapped attributes (e.g. `InstrumentedAttribute` objects) as keys. Pull request courtesy of mingyu.

  References: #12117

### sqlite

- [sqlite] [bug] [aiosqlite] [asyncio] [pool]

  Changed default connection pool used by the `aiosqlite` dialect from `NullPool` to `AsyncAdaptedQueuePool`; this change should have been made when 2.0 was first released as the `pysqlite` dialect was similarly changed to use `QueuePool` as detailed in The SQLite dialect uses QueuePool for file-based databases.

  References: #12285

## 2.0.37

Released: January 9, 2025

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue regarding `Union` types that would be present in the `registry.type_annotation_map` of a `registry` or declarative base class, where a `Mapped` element that included one of the subtypes present in that `Union` would be matched to that entry, potentially ignoring other entries that matched exactly. The correct behavior now takes place such that an entry should only match in `registry.type_annotation_map` exactly, as a `Union` type is a self-contained type. For example, an attribute with `Mapped[float]` would previously match to a `registry.type_annotation_map` entry `Union[float, Decimal]`; this will no longer match and will now only match to an entry that states `float`. Pull request courtesy Frazer McLean.

  References: #11370

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed bug in how type unions were handled within `registry.type_annotation_map` as well as `Mapped` that made the lookup behavior of `a | b` different from that of `Union[a, b]`.

  References: #11944

- [orm] [bug]

  Note

  this change has been revised in version 2.0.44. Simple matches of `TypeAliasType` without a type map entry are no longer deprecated.

  Consistently handle `TypeAliasType` (defined in PEP 695) obtained with the `type X = int` syntax introduced in python 3.12. Now in all cases one such alias must be explicitly added to the type map for it to be usable inside `Mapped`. This change also revises the approach added in #11305, now requiring the `TypeAliasType` to be added to the type map. Documentation on how unions and type alias types are handled by SQLAlchemy has been added in the Customizing the Type Map section of the documentation.

  References: #11955

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed regression caused by an internal code change in response to recent Mypy releases that caused the very unusual case of a list of ORM-mapped attribute expressions passed to `ColumnOperators.in_()` to no longer be accepted.

  References: #12019

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issues in type handling within the `registry.type_annotation_map` feature which prevented the use of unions, using either pep-604 or `Union` syntaxes under future annotations mode, which contained multiple generic types as elements from being correctly resolvable.

  References: #12207

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue in event system which prevented an event listener from being attached and detached from multiple class-like objects, namely the `sessionmaker` or `scoped_session` targets that assign to `Session` subclasses.

  References: #12216

### sql

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed issue in “lambda SQL” feature where the tracking of bound parameters could be corrupted if the same lambda were evaluated across multiple compile phases, including when using the same lambda across multiple engine instances or with statement caching disabled.

  References: #12084

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  The `Range` type now supports `Range.__contains__()`. Pull request courtesy of Frazer McLean.

  References: #12093

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixes issue in `Dialect.get_multi_indexes()` in the PostgreSQL dialect, where an error would be thrown when attempting to use alembic with a vector index from the pgvecto.rs extension.

  References: #11724

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where creating a table with a primary column of `SmallInteger` and using the asyncpg driver would result in the type being compiled to `SERIAL` rather than `SMALLSERIAL`.

  References: #12170

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Adjusted the asyncpg dialect so that an empty SQL string, which is valid for PostgreSQL server, may be successfully processed at the dialect level, such as when using `Connection.exec_driver_sql()`. Pull request courtesy Andrew Jackson.

  References: #12220

### mysql

- [mysql] [usecase] [mariadb]

  Added support for the `LIMIT` clause with `DELETE` for the MySQL and MariaDB dialects, to complement the already present option for `UPDATE`. The `Delete.with_dialect_options()` method of the `delete()` construct accepts parameters for `mysql_limit` and `mariadb_limit`, allowing users to specify a limit on the number of rows deleted. Pull request courtesy of Pablo Nicolás Estevez.

  References: #11764

- [mysql] [bug] [mariadb]

  Added logic to ensure that the `mysql_limit` and `mariadb_limit` parameters of `Update.with_dialect_options()` and `Delete.with_dialect_options()` when compiled to string will only compile if the parameter is passed as an integer; a `ValueError` is raised otherwise.

### mariadb

- [mariadb] [usecase]

  Added sql types `INET4` and `INET6` in the MariaDB dialect. Pull request courtesy Adam Žurek.

  References: #10720

### sqlite

- [sqlite] [usecase]

  Added SQLite table option to enable `STRICT` tables. Pull request courtesy of Guilherme Crocetti.

  References: #7398

### oracle

- [oracle] [feature]

  Added new table option `oracle_tablespace` to specify the `TABLESPACE` option when creating a table in Oracle. This allows users to define the tablespace in which the table should be created. Pull request courtesy of Miguel Grillo.

  References: #12016

- [oracle] [usecase]

  Use the connection attribute `max_identifier_length` available in oracledb since version 2.5 when determining the identifier length in the Oracle dialect.

  References: #12032

- [oracle] [bug]

  Fixed compilation of `TABLE` function when used in a `FROM` clause in Oracle Database dialect.

  References: #12100

- [oracle] [bug]

  Fixed issue in oracledb / cx_oracle dialects where output type handlers for `CLOB` were being routed to `NVARCHAR` rather than `VARCHAR`, causing a double conversion to take place.

  References: #12150

## 2.0.36

Released: October 15, 2024

### orm

- [orm] [usecase]

  Added new parameter `mapped_column.hash` to ORM constructs such as `sqlalchemy.orm.mapped_column()`, `sqlalchemy.orm.relationship()`, etc., which is interpreted for ORM Native Dataclasses in the same way as other dataclass-specific field parameters.

  References: #11923

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed bug in ORM bulk update/delete where using RETURNING with bulk update/delete in combination with `populate_existing` would fail to accommodate the `populate_existing` option.

  References: #11912

- [orm] [bug]

  Continuing from #11912, columns marked with `mapped_column.onupdate`, `mapped_column.server_onupdate`, or `Computed` are now refreshed in ORM instances when running an ORM enabled UPDATE with WHERE criteria, even if the statement does not use RETURNING or `populate_existing`.

  References: #11917

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed regression caused by fixes to joined eager loading in #11449 released in 2.0.31, where a particular joinedload case could not be asserted correctly. We now have an example of that case so the assertion has been repaired to allow for it.

  References: #11965

- [orm] [bug]

  Improved the error message emitted when trying to map as dataclass a class while also manually providing the `__table__` attribute. This usage is currently not supported.

  References: #11973

- [orm] [bug]

  Refined the check which the ORM lazy loader uses to detect “this would be loading by primary key and the primary key is NULL, skip loading” to take into account the current setting for the `Mapper.allow_partial_pks` parameter. If this parameter is `False`, then a composite PK value that has partial NULL elements should also be skipped. This can apply to some composite overlapping foreign key configurations.

  References: #11995

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed bug in ORM “update with WHERE clause” feature where an explicit `.returning()` would interfere with the “fetch” synchronize strategy due to an assumption that the ORM mapped class featured the primary key columns in a specific position within the RETURNING. This has been fixed to use appropriate ORM column targeting.

  References: #11997

### sql

- [sql] [usecase]

  Datatypes that are binary based such as `VARBINARY` will resolve to `LargeBinary` when the `TypeEngine.as_generic()` method is called.

  References: #11978

- [sql] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression from 1.4 where some datatypes such as those derived from `TypeDecorator` could not be pickled when they were part of a larger SQL expression composition due to internal supporting structures themselves not being pickleable.

  References: #12002

### schema

- [schema] [bug]

  Fixed bug where SQL functions passed to `Column.server_default` would not be rendered with the particular form of parenthesization now required by newer versions of MySQL and MariaDB. Pull request courtesy of huuya.

  References: #11317

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug] [reflection]

  Fixed bug in reflection of table comments where unrelated text would be returned if an entry in the `pg_description` table happened to share the same oid (objoid) as the table being reflected.

  References: #11961

- [postgresql] [bug]

  The `JSON` and `JSONB` datatypes will now render a “bind cast” in all cases for all PostgreSQL backends, including psycopg2, whereas previously it was only enabled for some backends. This allows greater accuracy in allowing the database server to recognize when a string value is to be interpreted as JSON.

  References: #11994

### mysql

- [mysql] [performance]

  Improved a query used for the MySQL 8 backend when reflecting foreign keys to be better optimized. Previously, for a database that had millions of columns across all tables, the query could be prohibitively slow; the query has been reworked to take better advantage of existing indexes.

  References: #11975

## 2.0.35

Released: September 16, 2024

### orm

- [orm] [bug] [typing]

  Fixed issue where it was not possible to use `typing.Literal` with `Mapped[]` on Python 3.8 and 3.9. Pull request courtesy Frazer McLean.

  References: #11820

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue in ORM evaluator where two datatypes being evaluated with the SQL concatenator operator would not be checked for `UnevaluatableError` based on their datatype; this missed the case of `JSONB` values being used in a concatenate operation which is supported by PostgreSQL as well as how SQLAlchemy renders the SQL for this operation, but does not work at the Python level. By implementing `UnevaluatableError` for this combination, ORM update statements will now fall back to “expire” when a concatenated JSON value used in a SET clause is to be synchronized to a Python object.

  References: #11849

- [orm] [bug]

  An warning is emitted if `joinedload()` or `subqueryload()` are used as a top level option against a statement that is not a SELECT statement, such as with an `insert().returning()`. There are no JOINs in INSERT statements nor is there a “subquery” that can be repurposed for subquery eager loading, and for UPDATE/DELETE joinedload does not support these either, so it is never appropriate for this use to pass silently.

  References: #11853

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where using loader options such as `selectinload()` with additional criteria in combination with ORM DML such as `insert()` with RETURNING would not correctly set up internal contexts required for caching to work correctly, leading to incorrect results.

  References: #11855

### mysql

- [mysql] [bug]

  Fixed issue in mariadbconnector dialect where query string arguments that weren’t checked integer or boolean arguments would be ignored, such as string arguments like `unix_socket`, etc. As part of this change, the argument parsing for particular elements such as `client_flags`, `compress`, `local_infile` has been made more consistent across all MySQL / MariaDB dialect which accept each argument. Pull request courtesy Tobias Alex-Petersen.

  References: #11870

### sqlite

- [sqlite] [bug] [regression]

  The changes made for SQLite CHECK constraint reflection in versions 2.0.33 and 2.0.34 , #11832 and #11677, have now been fully reverted, as users continued to identify existing use cases that stopped working after this change. For the moment, because SQLite does not provide any consistent way of delivering information about CHECK constraints, SQLAlchemy is limited in what CHECK constraint syntaxes can be reflected, including that a CHECK constraint must be stated all on a single, independent line (or inline on a column definition) without newlines, tabs in the constraint definition or unusual characters in the constraint name. Overall, reflection for SQLite is tailored towards being able to reflect CREATE TABLE statements that were originally created by SQLAlchemy DDL constructs. Long term work on a DDL parser that does not rely upon regular expressions may eventually improve upon this situation. A wide range of additional cross-dialect CHECK constraint reflection tests have been added as it was also a bug that these changes did not trip any existing tests.

  References: #11840

## 2.0.34

Released: September 4, 2024

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed regression caused by issue #11814 which broke support for certain flavors of PEP 593 `Annotated` in the type_annotation_map when builtin types such as `list`, `dict` were used without an element type. While this is an incomplete style of typing, these types nonetheless previously would be located in the type_annotation_map correctly.

  References: #11831

### sqlite

- [sqlite] [bug]

  Fixed regression in SQLite reflection caused by #11677 which interfered with reflection for CHECK constraints that were followed by other kinds of constraints within the same table definition. Pull request courtesy Harutaka Kawamura.

  References: #11832

## 2.0.33

Released: September 3, 2024

### general

- [general] [change]

  The pin for `setuptools<69.3` in `pyproject.toml` has been removed. This pin was to prevent a sudden change in setuptools to use PEP 625 from taking place, which would change the file name of SQLAlchemy’s source distribution on pypi to be an all lower case name, which is likely to cause problems with various build environments that expected the previous naming style. However, the presence of this pin is holding back environments that otherwise want to use a newer setuptools, so we’ve decided to move forward with this change, with the assumption that build environments will have largely accommodated the setuptools change by now.

  References: #11818

### orm

- [orm] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression from 1.3 where the column key used for a hybrid property might be populated with that of the underlying column that it returns, for a property that returns an ORM mapped column directly, rather than the key used by the hybrid property itself.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.54

  References: #11728

- [orm] [bug]

  Correctly cleanup the internal top-level module registry when no inner modules or classes are registered into it.

  References: #11788

- [orm] [bug]

  Improvements to the ORM annotated declarative type map lookup dealing with composed types such as `dict[str, Any]` linking to JSON (or others) with or without “future annotations” mode.

  References: #11814

### engine

- [engine] [bug]

  Fixed issue in internal reflection cache where particular reflection scenarios regarding same-named quoted_name() constructs would not be correctly cached. Pull request courtesy Felix Lüdin.

  References: #11687

### sql

- [sql] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression in `Select.with_statement_hint()` and others where the generative behavior of the method stopped producing a copy of the object.

  References: #11703

### schema

- [schema] [bug]

  Fixed bug where the `metadata` element of an `Enum` datatype would not be transferred to the new `MetaData` object when the type had been copied via a `Table.to_metadata()` operation, leading to inconsistent behaviors within create/drop sequences.

  References: #11802

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing issue with `Select.with_only_columns()`.

  References: #11782

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed critical issue in the asyncpg driver where a rollback or commit that fails specifically for the `MissingGreenlet` condition or any other error that is not raised by asyncpg itself would discard the asyncpg transaction in any case, even though the transaction were still idle, leaving to a server side condition with an idle transaction that then goes back into the connection pool. The flags for “transaction closed” are now not reset for errors that are raised outside of asyncpg itself. When asyncpg itself raises an error for `.commit()` or `.rollback()`, asyncpg does then discard of this transaction.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.54

  References: #11819

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Revising the asyncpg `terminate()` fix first made in #10717 which improved the resiliency of this call under all circumstances, adding `asyncio.CancelledError` to the list of exceptions that are intercepted as failing for a graceful `.close()` which will then proceed to call `.terminate()`.

  References: #11821

### mysql

- [mysql] [bug]

  Fixed issue in MySQL dialect where using INSERT..FROM SELECT in combination with ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE would erroneously render on MySQL 8 and above the “AS new” clause, leading to syntax failures. This clause is required on MySQL 8 to follow the VALUES clause if use of the “new” alias is present, however is not permitted to follow a FROM SELECT clause.

  References: #11731

### sqlite

- [sqlite] [bug]

  Improvements to the regex used by the SQLite dialect to reflect the name and contents of a CHECK constraint. Constraints with newline, tab, or space characters in either or both the constraint text and constraint name are now properly reflected. Pull request courtesy Jeff Horemans.

  References: #11677

- [sqlite] [bug]

  Improvements to the regex used by the SQLite dialect to reflect the name and contents of a UNIQUE constraint that is defined inline within a column definition inside of a SQLite CREATE TABLE statement, accommodating for tab characters present within the column / constraint line. Pull request courtesy John A Stevenson.

  References: #11746

### mssql

- [mssql] [bug]

  Added error “The server failed to resume the transaction” to the list of error strings for the pymssql driver in determining a disconnect scenario, as observed by one user using pymssql under otherwise unknown conditions as leaving an unusable connection in the connection pool which fails to ping cleanly.

  References: #11822

### tests

- [tests] [bug]

  Added missing `array_type` property to the testing suite `SuiteRequirements` class.

## 2.0.32

Released: August 5, 2024

### general

- [general] [bug] [regression]

  Restored legacy class names removed from `sqlalalchemy.orm.collections.*`, including `MappedCollection`, `mapped_collection()`, `column_mapped_collection()`, `attribute_mapped_collection()`. Pull request courtesy Takashi Kajinami.

  References: #11435

### orm

- [orm] [usecase]

  The `aliased.name` parameter to `aliased()` may now be combined with the `aliased.flat` parameter, producing per-table names based on a name-prefixed naming convention. Pull request courtesy Eric Atkin.

  References: #11575

- [orm] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression going back to 1.4 where accessing a collection using the “dynamic” strategy on a transient object and attempting to query would raise an internal error rather than the expected `NoResultFound` that occurred in 1.3.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.53

  References: #11562

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where using the `Query.enable_eagerloads()` and `Query.yield_per()` methods at the same time, in order to disable eager loading that’s configured on the mapper directly, would be silently ignored, leading to errors or unexpected eager population of attributes.

  References: #10834

- [orm] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression appearing in 2.0.21 caused by #10279 where using a `delete()` or `update()` against an ORM class that is the base of an inheritance hierarchy, while also specifying that subclasses should be loaded polymorphically, would leak the polymorphic joins into the UPDATE or DELETE statement as well creating incorrect SQL.

  References: #11625

- [orm] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression from version 1.4 in `Session.bulk_insert_mappings()` where using the `Session.bulk_insert_mappings.return_defaults` parameter would not populate the passed in dictionaries with newly generated primary key values.

  References: #11661

- [orm]

  Added a warning noting when an `ConnectionEvents.engine_connect()` event may be leaving a transaction open, which can alter the behavior of a `Session` using such an engine as bind. On SQLAlchemy 2.1 `Session.join_transaction_mode` will instead be ignored in all cases when the session bind is an `Engine`.

  References: #11163

### examples

- [examples] [bug]

  Fixed issue in history_meta example where the “version” column in the versioned table needs to default to the most recent version number in the history table on INSERT, to suit the use case of a table where rows are deleted, and can then be replaced by new rows that reuse the same primary key identity. This fix adds an additional SELECT query per INSERT in the main table, which may be inefficient; for cases where primary keys are not reused, the default function may be omitted. Patch courtesy Philipp H. v. Loewenfeld.

  References: #10267

### engine

- [engine] [bug]

  Fixed issue in “insertmanyvalues” feature where a particular call to `cursor.fetchall()` were not wrapped in SQLAlchemy’s exception wrapper, which apparently can raise a database exception during fetch when using pyodbc.

  References: #11532

### sql

- [sql] [bug]

  Follow up of #11471 to fix caching issue where using the `CompoundSelectState.add_cte()` method of the `CompoundSelectState` construct would not set a correct cache key which distinguished between different CTE expressions. Also added tests that would detect issues similar to the one fixed in #11544.

  References: #11471

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed bug where the `Operators.nulls_first()` and `Operators.nulls_last()` modifiers would not be treated the same way as `Operators.desc()` and `Operators.asc()` when determining if an ORDER BY should be against a label name already in the statement. All four modifiers are now treated the same within ORDER BY.

  References: #11592

### schema

- [schema] [bug]

  Fixed additional issues in the event system triggered by unpickling of a `Enum` datatype, continuing from #11365 and #11360, where dynamically generated elements of the event structure would not be present when unpickling in a new process.

  References: #11530

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed internal typing issues to establish compatibility with mypy 1.11.0. Note that this does not include issues which have arisen with the deprecated mypy plugin used by SQLAlchemy 1.4-style code; see the additional change note for this plugin indicating revised compatibility.

### mypy

- [mypy] [bug]

  The deprecated mypy plugin is no longer fully functional with the latest series of mypy 1.11.0, as changes in the mypy interpreter are no longer compatible with the approach used by the plugin. If code is dependent on the mypy plugin with sqlalchemy2-stubs, it’s recommended to pin mypy to be below the 1.11.0 series. Seek upgrading to the 2.0 series of SQLAlchemy and migrating to the modern type annotations.

  See also

  mypy_toplevel – section was removed

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.53

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug]

  It is now considered a pool-invalidating disconnect event when psycopg2 throws an “SSL SYSCALL error: Success” error message, which can occur when the SSL connection to Postgres is terminated abnormally.

  References: #11522

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where the `collate()` construct, which explicitly sets a collation for a given expression, would maintain collation settings for the underlying type object from the expression, causing SQL expressions to have both collations stated at once when used in further expressions for specific dialects that render explicit type casts, such as that of asyncpg. The `collate()` construct now assigns its own type to explicitly include the new collation, assuming it’s a string type.

  References: #11576

### mysql

- [mysql] [bug]

  Fixed issue in MySQL dialect where ENUM values that contained percent signs were not properly escaped for the driver.

  References: #11479

### sqlite

- [sqlite] [bug] [reflection]

  Fixed reflection of computed column in SQLite to properly account for complex expressions.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.53

  References: #11582

### mssql

- [mssql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where SQL Server drivers don’t support bound parameters when rendering the “frame specification” for a window function, e.g. “ROWS BETWEEN”, etc.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.53

  References: #11514

### oracle

- [oracle] [usecase]

  Added API support for server-side cursors for the oracledb async dialect, allowing use of the `AsyncConnection.stream()` and similar stream methods.

  References: #10820

- [oracle] [usecase]

  Implemented two-phase transactions for the oracledb dialect. Historically, this feature never worked with the cx_Oracle dialect, however recent improvements to the oracledb successor now allow this to be possible. The two phase transaction API is available at the Core level via the `Connection.begin_twophase()` method.

  References: #11480

- [oracle] [bug]

  Fixed table reflection on Oracle 10.2 and older where compression options are not supported.

  References: #11557

- [oracle] [bug] [sqlite]

  Implemented bitwise operators for Oracle which was previously non-functional due to a non-standard syntax used by this database. Oracle’s support for bitwise “or” and “xor” starts with server version 21. Additionally repaired the implementation of “xor” for SQLite.

  As part of this change, the dialect compliance test suite has been enhanced to include support for server-side bitwise tests; third party dialect authors should refer to new “supports_bitwise” methods in the requirements.py file to enable these tests.

  References: #11663

## 2.0.31

Released: June 18, 2024

### general

- [general] [bug]

  Set up full Python 3.13 support to the extent currently possible, repairing issues within internal language helpers as well as the serializer extension module.

  For version 1.4, this also modernizes the “extras” names in setup.cfg to use dashes and not underscores for two-word names. Underscore names are still present to accommodate potential compatibility issues.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.53

  References: #11417

- [general] [bug]

  Set up full Python 3.13 support to the extent currently possible, repairing issues within internal language helpers as well as the serializer extension module.

  References: #11417

### orm

- [orm] [usecase]

  Added missing parameter `with_polymorphic.name` that allows specifying the name of returned `AliasedClass`.

  References: #11361

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where a `MetaData` collection would not be serializable, if an `Enum` or `Boolean` datatype were present which had been adapted. This specific scenario in turn could occur when using the `Enum` or `Boolean` within ORM Annotated Declarative form where type objects frequently get copied.

  References: #11365

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where the `selectinload()` and `subqueryload()` loader options would fail to take effect when made against an inherited subclass that itself included a subclass-specific `Mapper.with_polymorphic` setting.

  References: #11446

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed very old issue involving the `joinedload.innerjoin` parameter where making use of this parameter mixed into a query that also included joined eager loads along a self-referential or other cyclical relationship, along with complicating factors like inner joins added for secondary tables and such, would have the chance of splicing a particular inner join to the wrong part of the query. Additional state has been added to the internal method that does this splice to make a better decision as to where splicing should proceed.

  References: #11449

- [orm] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed bug in ORM Declarative where the `__table__` directive could not be declared as a class function with `declared_attr()` on a superclass, including an `__abstract__` class as well as coming from the declarative base itself. This was a regression since 1.4 where this was working, and there were apparently no tests for this particular use case.

  References: #11509

### engine

- [engine] [usecase]

  Modified the internal representation used for adapting asyncio calls to greenlets to allow for duck-typed compatibility with third party libraries that implement SQLAlchemy’s “greenlet-to-asyncio” pattern directly. Running code within a greenlet that features the attribute `__sqlalchemy_greenlet_provider__ = True` will allow calls to `sqlalchemy.util.await_only()` directly.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.53

### sql

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed caching issue where using the `TextualSelect.add_cte()` method of the `TextualSelect` construct would not set a correct cache key which distinguished between different CTE expressions.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.53

  References: #11471

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed issue when serializing an `over()` clause with unbounded range or rows.

  References: #11422

- [sql] [bug]

  Added missing methods `FunctionFilter.within_group()` and `WithinGroup.filter()`

  References: #11423

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed bug in `FunctionFilter.filter()` that would mutate the existing function in-place. It now behaves like the rest of the SQLAlchemy API, returning a new instance instead of mutating the original one.

  References: #11426

### schema

- [schema] [usecase]

  Added `Column.insert_default` as an alias of `Column.default` for compatibility with `mapped_column()`.

  References: #11374

### mysql

- [mysql] [usecase] [reflection]

  Added missing foreign key reflection option `SET DEFAULT` in the MySQL and MariaDB dialects. Pull request courtesy of Quentin Roche.

  References: #11285

## 2.0.30

Released: May 5, 2024

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Added new attribute `ORMExecuteState.is_from_statement` to detect statements created using `Select.from_statement()`, and enhanced `FromStatement` to set `ORMExecuteState.is_select`, `ORMExecuteState.is_insert`, `ORMExecuteState.is_update`, and `ORMExecuteState.is_delete` according to the element that is sent to the `Select.from_statement()` method itself.

  References: #11220

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue in `selectin_polymorphic()` loader option where attributes defined with `composite()` on a superclass would cause an internal exception on load.

  References: #11291

- [orm] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression from 1.4 where using `defaultload()` in conjunction with a non-propagating loader like `contains_eager()` would nonetheless propagate the `contains_eager()` to a lazy load operation, causing incorrect queries as this option is only intended to come from an original load.

  References: #11292

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue in ORM Annotated Declarative where typing issue where literals defined using PEP 695 type aliases would not work with inference of `Enum` datatypes. Pull request courtesy of Alc-Alc.

  References: #11305

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue in `selectin_polymorphic()` loader option where the SELECT emitted would only accommodate for the child-most class among the result rows that were returned, leading intermediary-class attributes to be unloaded if there were no concrete instances of that intermediary-class present in the result. This issue only presented itself for multi-level inheritance hierarchies.

  References: #11327

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue in `Session.bulk_save_objects()` where the form of the identity key produced when using `return_defaults=True` would be incorrect. This could lead to an errors during pickling as well as identity map mismatches.

  References: #11332

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where attribute key names in `Bundle` would not be correct when using ORM enabled `select` vs. `Query`, when the statement contained duplicate column names.

  References: #11347

### engine

- [engine] [bug]

  Fixed issue in the `Connection.execution_options.logging_token` option, where changing the value of `logging_token` on a connection that has already logged messages would not be updated to reflect the new logging token. This in particular prevented the use of `Session.connection()` to change the option on the connection, since the BEGIN logging message would already have been emitted.

  References: #11210

- [engine] [bug]

  Fixed issue in cursor handling which affected handling of duplicate `Column` or similar objects in the columns clause of `select()`, both in combination with arbitrary `text()` clauses in the SELECT list, as well as when attempting to retrieve `Result.mappings()` for the object, which would lead to an internal error.

  References: #11306

### typing

- [typing] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed typing regression caused by #11055 in version 2.0.29 that added `ParamSpec` to the asyncio `run_sync()` methods, where using `AsyncConnection.run_sync()` with `MetaData.reflect()` would fail on mypy due to a mypy issue. Pull request courtesy of Francisco R. Del Roio.

  References: #11200

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed issue in typing for `Bundle` where creating a nested `Bundle` structure were not allowed.

### misc

- [bug] [test]

  Ensure the `PYTHONPATH` variable is properly initialized when using `subprocess.run` in the tests.

  References: #11268

- [bug] [installation]

  Fixed an internal class that was testing for unexpected attributes to work correctly under upcoming Python 3.13. Pull request courtesy Edgar Ramírez-Mondragón.

  References: #11334

## 2.0.29

Released: March 23, 2024

### orm

- [orm] [usecase]

  Added support for the PEP 695 `TypeAliasType` construct as well as the python 3.12 native `type` keyword to work with ORM Annotated Declarative form when using these constructs to link to a PEP 593 `Annotated` container, allowing the resolution of the `Annotated` to proceed when these constructs are used in a `Mapped` typing container.

  References: #11130

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed Declarative issue where typing a relationship using `Relationship` rather than `Mapped` would inadvertently pull in the “dynamic” relationship loader strategy for that attribute.

  References: #10611

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue in ORM annotated declarative where using `mapped_column()` with an `mapped_column.index` or `mapped_column.unique` setting of False would be overridden by an incoming `Annotated` element that featured that parameter set to `True`, even though the immediate `mapped_column()` element is more specific and should take precedence. The logic to reconcile the booleans has been enhanced to accommodate a local value of `False` as still taking precedence over an incoming `True` value from the annotated element.

  References: #11091

- [orm] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression from version 2.0.28 caused by the fix for #11085 where the newer method of adjusting post-cache bound parameter values would interfere with the implementation for the `subqueryload()` loader option, which has some more legacy patterns in use internally, when the additional loader criteria feature were used with this loader option.

  References: #11173

### engine

- [engine] [bug]

  Fixed issue in “Insert Many Values” Behavior for INSERT statements feature where using a primary key column with an “inline execute” default generator such as an explicit `Sequence` with an explicit schema name, while at the same time using the `Connection.execution_options.schema_translate_map` feature would fail to render the sequence or the parameters properly, leading to errors.

  References: #11157

- [engine] [bug]

  Made a change to the adjustment made in version 2.0.10 for #9618, which added the behavior of reconciling RETURNING rows from a bulk INSERT to the parameters that were passed to it. This behavior included a comparison of already-DB-converted bound parameter values against returned row values that was not always “symmetrical” for SQL column types such as UUIDs, depending on specifics of how different DBAPIs receive such values versus how they return them, necessitating the need for additional “sentinel value resolver” methods on these column types. Unfortunately this broke third party column types such as UUID/GUID types in libraries like SQLModel which did not implement this special method, raising an error “Can’t match sentinel values in result set to parameter sets”. Rather than attempt to further explain and document this implementation detail of the “insertmanyvalues” feature including a public version of the new method, the approach is instead revised to no longer need this extra conversion step, and the logic that does the comparison now works on the pre-converted bound parameter value compared to the post-result-processed value, which should always be of a matching datatype. In the unusual case that a custom SQL column type that also happens to be used in a “sentinel” column for bulk INSERT is not receiving and returning the same value type, the “Can’t match” error will be raised, however the mitigation is straightforward in that the same Python datatype should be passed as that returned.

  References: #11160

### sql

- [sql] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression from the 1.4 series where the refactor of the `TypeEngine.with_variant()` method introduced at “with_variant()” clones the original TypeEngine rather than changing the type failed to accommodate for the `.copy()` method, which will lose the variant mappings that are set up. This becomes an issue for the very specific case of a “schema” type, which includes types such as `Enum` and `ARRAY`, when they are then used in the context of an ORM Declarative mapping with mixins where copying of types comes into play. The variant mapping is now copied as well.

  References: #11176

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing issue allowing asyncio `run_sync()` methods to correctly type the parameters according to the callable that was passed, making use of PEP 612 `ParamSpec` variables. Pull request courtesy Francisco R. Del Roio.

  References: #11055

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  The PostgreSQL dialect now returns `DOMAIN` instances when reflecting a column that has a domain as type. Previously, the domain data type was returned instead. As part of this change, the domain reflection was improved to also return the collation of the text types. Pull request courtesy of Thomas Stephenson.

  References: #10693

### tests

- [tests] [bug]

  Backported to SQLAlchemy 2.0 an improvement to the test suite with regards to how asyncio related tests are run, now using the newer Python 3.11 `asyncio.Runner` or a backported equivalent, rather than relying on the previous implementation based on `asyncio.get_running_loop()`. This should hopefully prevent issues with large suite runs on CPU loaded hardware where the event loop seems to become corrupted, leading to cascading failures.

  References: #11187

## 2.0.28

Released: March 4, 2024

### orm

- [orm] [performance] [bug] [regression]

  Adjusted the fix made in #10570, released in 2.0.23, where new logic was added to reconcile possibly changing bound parameter values across cache key generations used within the `with_expression()` construct. The new logic changes the approach by which the new bound parameter values are associated with the statement, avoiding the need to deep-copy the statement which can result in a significant performance penalty for very deep / complex SQL constructs. The new approach no longer requires this deep-copy step.

  References: #11085

- [orm] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression caused by #9779 where using the “secondary” table in a relationship `and_()` expression would fail to be aliased to match how the “secondary” table normally renders within a `Select.join()` expression, leading to an invalid query.

  References: #11010

### engine

- [engine] [usecase]

  Added new core execution option `Connection.execution_options.preserve_rowcount`. When set, the `cursor.rowcount` attribute from the DBAPI cursor will be unconditionally memoized at statement execution time, so that whatever value the DBAPI offers for any kind of statement will be available using the `CursorResult.rowcount` attribute from the `CursorResult`. This allows the rowcount to be accessed for statements such as INSERT and SELECT, to the degree supported by the DBAPI in use. The “Insert Many Values” Behavior for INSERT statements also supports this option and will ensure `CursorResult.rowcount` is correctly set for a bulk INSERT of rows when set.

  References: #10974

### asyncio

- [asyncio] [bug]

  An error is raised if a `QueuePool` or other non-asyncio pool class is passed to `create_async_engine()`. This engine only accepts asyncio-compatible pool classes including `AsyncAdaptedQueuePool`. Other pool classes such as `NullPool` are compatible with both synchronous and asynchronous engines as they do not perform any locking.

  See also

  API Documentation - Available Pool Implementations

  References: #8771

### tests

- [tests] [change]

  pytest support in the tox.ini file has been updated to support pytest 8.1.

## 2.0.27

Released: February 13, 2024

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression caused by just-released fix for #10863 where an invalid exception class were added to the “except” block, which does not get exercised unless such a catch actually happens. A mock-style test has been added to ensure this catch is exercised in unit tests.

  References: #11005

## 2.0.26

Released: February 11, 2024

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Replaced the “loader depth is excessively deep” warning with a shorter message added to the caching badge within SQL logging, for those statements where the ORM disabled the cache due to a too-deep chain of loader options. The condition which this warning highlights is difficult to resolve and is generally just a limitation in the ORM’s application of SQL caching. A future feature may include the ability to tune the threshold where caching is disabled, but for now the warning will no longer be a nuisance.

  References: #10896

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where it was not possible to use a type (such as an enum) within a `Mapped` container type if that type were declared locally within the class body. The scope of locals used for the eval now includes that of the class body itself. In addition, the expression within `Mapped` may also refer to the class name itself, if used as a string or with future annotations mode.

  References: #10899

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where using `Session.delete()` along with the `Mapper.version_id_col` feature would fail to use the correct version identifier in the case that an additional UPDATE were emitted against the target object as a result of the use of `relationship.post_update` on the object. The issue is similar to #10800 just fixed in version 2.0.25 for the case of updates alone.

  References: #10967

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where an assertion within the implementation for `with_expression()` would raise if a SQL expression that was not cacheable were used; this was a 2.0 regression since 1.4.

  References: #10990

### examples

- [examples] [bug]

  Fixed regression in history_meta example where the use of `MetaData.to_metadata()` to make a copy of the history table would also copy indexes (which is a good thing), but causing naming conflicts indexes regardless of naming scheme used for those indexes. A “_history” suffix is now added to these indexes in the same way as is achieved for the table name.

  References: #10920

- [examples] [bug]

  Fixed the performance example scripts in examples/performance to mostly work with the Oracle database, by adding the `Identity` construct to all the tables and allowing primary generation to occur on this backend. A few of the “raw DBAPI” cases still are not compatible with Oracle.

### sql

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed issues in `case()` where the logic for determining the type of the expression could result in `NullType` if the last element in the “whens” had no type, or in other cases where the type could resolve to `None`. The logic has been updated to scan all given expressions so that the first non-null type is used, as well as to always ensure a type is present. Pull request courtesy David Evans.

  References: #10843

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed the type signature for the `PoolEvents.checkin()` event to indicate that the given `DBAPIConnection` argument may be `None` in the case where the connection has been invalidated.

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [usecase] [reflection]

  Added support for reflection of PostgreSQL CHECK constraints marked with “NO INHERIT”, setting the key `no_inherit=True` in the reflected data. Pull request courtesy Ellis Valentiner.

  References: #10777

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  Support the `USING <method>` option for PostgreSQL `CREATE TABLE` to specify the access method to use to store the contents for the new table. Pull request courtesy Edgar Ramírez-Mondragón.

  See also

  PostgreSQL Table Options

  References: #10904

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  Correctly type PostgreSQL RANGE and MULTIRANGE types as `Range[T]` and `Sequence[Range[T]]`. Introduced utility sequence `MultiRange` to allow better interoperability of MULTIRANGE types.

  References: #9736

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  Differentiate between INT4 and INT8 ranges and multi-ranges types when inferring the database type from a `Range` or `MultiRange` instance, preferring INT4 if the values fit into it.

- [postgresql] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression in the asyncpg dialect caused by #10717 in release 2.0.24 where the change that now attempts to gracefully close the asyncpg connection before terminating would not fall back to `terminate()` for other potential connection-related exceptions other than a timeout error, not taking into account cases where the graceful `.close()` attempt fails for other reasons such as connection errors.

  References: #10863

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed an issue regarding the use of the `Uuid` datatype with the `Uuid.as_uuid` parameter set to False, when using PostgreSQL dialects. ORM-optimized INSERT statements (e.g. the “insertmanyvalues” feature) would not correctly align primary key UUID values for bulk INSERT statements, resulting in errors. Similar issues were fixed for the pymssql driver as well.

### mysql

- [mysql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where NULL/NOT NULL would not be properly reflected from a MySQL column that also specified the VIRTUAL or STORED directives. Pull request courtesy Georg Wicke-Arndt.

  References: #10850

- [mysql] [bug]

  Fixed issue in asyncio dialects asyncmy and aiomysql, where their `.close()` method is apparently not a graceful close. replace with non-standard `.ensure_closed()` method that’s awaitable and move `.close()` to the so-called “terminate” case.

  References: #10893

### mssql

- [mssql] [bug]

  Fixed an issue regarding the use of the `Uuid` datatype with the `Uuid.as_uuid` parameter set to False, when using the pymssql dialect. ORM-optimized INSERT statements (e.g. the “insertmanyvalues” feature) would not correctly align primary key UUID values for bulk INSERT statements, resulting in errors. Similar issues were fixed for the PostgreSQL drivers as well.

### oracle

- [oracle] [performance] [bug]

  Changed the default arraysize of the Oracle dialects so that the value set by the driver is used, that is 100 at the time of writing for both cx_oracle and oracledb. Previously the value was set to 50 by default. The setting of 50 could cause significant performance regressions compared to when using cx_oracle/oracledb alone to fetch many hundreds of rows over slower networks.

  References: #10877

## 2.0.25

Released: January 2, 2024

### orm

- [orm] [usecase]

  Added preliminary support for Python 3.12 pep-695 type alias structures, when resolving custom type maps for ORM Annotated Declarative mappings.

  References: #10807

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where when making use of the `relationship.post_update` feature at the same time as using a mapper version_id_col could lead to a situation where the second UPDATE statement emitted by the post-update feature would fail to make use of the correct version identifier, assuming an UPDATE was already emitted in that flush which had already bumped the version counter.

  References: #10800

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where ORM Annotated Declarative would mis-interpret the left hand side of a relationship without any collection specified as uselist=True if the left type were given as a class and not a string, without using future-style annotations.

  References: #10815

### sql

- [sql] [bug]

  Improved compilation of `any_()` / `all_()` in the context of a negation of boolean comparison, will now render `NOT (expr)` rather than reversing the equality operator to not equals, allowing finer-grained control of negations for these non-typical operators.

  References: #10817

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed regressions caused by typing added to the `sqlalchemy.sql.functions` module in version 2.0.24, as part of #6810:

  - Further enhancements to pep-484 typing to allow SQL functions from `sqlalchemy.sql.expression.func` derived elements to work more effectively with ORM-mapped attributes (#10801)

  - Fixed the argument types passed to functions so that literal expressions like strings and ints are again interpreted correctly (#10818)

  References: #10801, #10818

### asyncio

- [asyncio] [bug]

  Fixed critical issue in asyncio version of the connection pool where calling `AsyncEngine.dispose()` would produce a new connection pool that did not fully re-establish the use of asyncio-compatible mutexes, leading to the use of a plain `threading.Lock()` which would then cause deadlocks in an asyncio context when using concurrency features like `asyncio.gather()`.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.51

  References: #10813

### oracle

- [oracle] [asyncio]

  Added support for python-oracledb in asyncio mode, using the newly released version of the `oracledb` DBAPI that includes asyncio support. For the 2.0 series, this is a preview release, where the current implementation does not yet have include support for `AsyncConnection.stream()`. Improved support is planned for the 2.1 release of SQLAlchemy.

  References: #10679

## 2.0.24

Released: December 28, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Improved a fix first implemented for #3208 released in version 0.9.8, where the registry of classes used internally by declarative could be subject to a race condition in the case where individual mapped classes are being garbage collected at the same time while new mapped classes are being constructed, as can happen in some test suite configurations or dynamic class creation environments. In addition to the weakref check already added, the list of items being iterated is also copied first to avoid “list changed while iterating” errors. Pull request courtesy Yilei Yang.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.51

  References: #10782

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where use of `foreign()` annotation on a non-initialized `mapped_column()` construct would produce an expression without a type, which was then not updated at initialization time of the actual column, leading to issues such as relationships not determining `use_get` appropriately.

  References: #10597

- [orm] [bug]

  Improved the error message produced when the unit of work process sets the value of a primary key column to NULL due to a related object with a dependency rule on that column being deleted, to include not just the destination object and column name but also the source column from which the NULL value is originating. Pull request courtesy Jan Vollmer.

  References: #10668

- [orm] [bug]

  Modified the `__init_subclass__()` method used by `MappedAsDataclass`, `DeclarativeBase` and `DeclarativeBaseNoMeta` to accept arbitrary `**kw` and to propagate them to the `super()` call, allowing greater flexibility in arranging custom superclasses and mixins which make use of `__init_subclass__()` keyword arguments. Pull request courtesy Michael Oliver.

  References: #10732

- [orm] [bug]

  Ensured the use case of `Bundle` objects used in the `returning()` portion of ORM-enabled INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements is tested and works fully. This was never explicitly implemented or tested previously and did not work correctly in the 1.4 series; in the 2.0 series, ORM UPDATE/DELETE with WHERE criteria was missing an implementation method preventing `Bundle` objects from working.

  References: #10776

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed 2.0 regression in `MutableList` where a routine that detects sequences would not correctly filter out string or bytes instances, making it impossible to assign a string value to a specific index (while non-sequence values would work fine).

  References: #10784

### engine

- [engine] [bug]

  Fixed URL-encoding of the username and password components of `URL` objects when converting them to string using the `URL.render_as_string()` method, by using Python standard library `urllib.parse.quote` while allowing for plus signs and spaces to remain unchanged as supported by SQLAlchemy’s non-standard URL parsing, rather than the legacy home-grown routine from many years ago. Pull request courtesy of Xavier NUNN.

  References: #10662

### sql

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed issue in stringify for SQL elements, where a specific dialect is not passed, where a dialect-specific element such as the PostgreSQL “on conflict do update” construct is encountered and then fails to provide for a stringify dialect with the appropriate state to render the construct, leading to internal errors.

  References: #10753

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where stringifying or compiling a `CTE` that was against a DML construct such as an `insert()` construct would fail to stringify, due to a mis-detection that the statement overall is an INSERT, leading to internal errors.

### schema

- [schema] [bug]

  Fixed issue where error reporting for unexpected schema item when creating objects like `Table` would incorrectly handle an argument that was itself passed as a tuple, leading to a formatting error. The error message has been modernized to use f-strings.

  References: #10654

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Completed pep-484 typing for the `sqlalchemy.sql.functions` module. `select()` constructs made against `func` elements should now have filled-in return types.

  References: #6810

### asyncio

- [asyncio] [change]

  The `async_fallback` dialect argument is now deprecated, and will be removed in SQLAlchemy 2.1. This flag has not been used for SQLAlchemy’s test suite for some time. asyncio dialects can still run in a synchronous style by running code within a greenlet using `greenlet_spawn()`.

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Adjusted the asyncpg dialect such that when the `terminate()` method is used to discard an invalidated connection, the dialect will first attempt to gracefully close the connection using `.close()` with a timeout, if the operation is proceeding within an async event loop context only. This allows the asyncpg driver to attend to finalizing a `TimeoutError` including being able to close a long-running query server side, which otherwise can keep running after the program has exited.

  References: #10717

### mysql

- [mysql] [bug]

  Fixed regression introduced by the fix in ticket #10492 when using pool pre-ping with PyMySQL version older than 1.0.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.51

  References: #10650

### tests

- [tests] [bug]

  Improvements to the test suite to further harden its ability to run when Python `greenlet` is not installed. There is now a tox target that includes the token “nogreenlet” that will run the suite with greenlet not installed (note that it still temporarily installs greenlet as part of the tox config, however).

  References: #10747

## 2.0.23

Released: November 2, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [usecase]

  Implemented the `Session.bulk_insert_mappings.render_nulls` parameter for new style bulk ORM inserts, allowing `render_nulls=True` as an execution option. This allows for bulk ORM inserts with a mixture of `None` values in the parameter dictionaries to use a single batch of rows for a given set of dictionary keys, rather than breaking up into batches that omit the NULL columns from each INSERT.

  See also

  Sending NULL values in ORM bulk INSERT statements

  References: #10575

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where the `__allow_unmapped__` directive failed to allow for legacy `Column` / `deferred()` mappings that nonetheless had annotations such as `Any` or a specific type without `Mapped[]` as their type, without errors related to locating the attribute name.

  References: #10516

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed caching bug where using the `with_expression()` construct in conjunction with loader options `selectinload()`, `lazyload()` would fail to substitute bound parameter values correctly on subsequent caching runs.

  References: #10570

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed bug in ORM annotated declarative where using a `ClassVar` that nonetheless referred in some way to an ORM mapped class name would fail to be interpreted as a `ClassVar` that’s not mapped.

  References: #10472

### sql

- [sql] [usecase]

  Implemented “literal value processing” for the `Interval` datatype for both the PostgreSQL and Oracle dialects, allowing literal rendering of interval values. Pull request courtesy Indivar Mishra.

  References: #9737

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where using the same bound parameter more than once with `literal_execute=True` in some combinations with other literal rendering parameters would cause the wrong values to render due to an iteration issue.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.50

  References: #10142

- [sql] [bug]

  Added compiler-level None/NULL handling for the “literal processors” of all datatypes that include literal processing, that is, where a value is rendered inline within a SQL statement rather than as a bound parameter, for all those types that do not feature explicit “null value” handling. Previously this behavior was undefined and inconsistent.

  References: #10535

- [sql]

  Removed unused placeholder method `TypeEngine.compare_against_backend()` This method was used by very old versions of Alembic. See https://github.com/sqlalchemy/alembic/issues/1293 for details.

### asyncio

- [asyncio] [bug]

  Fixed bug with method `AsyncSession.close_all()` that was not working correctly. Also added function `close_all_sessions()` that’s the equivalent of `close_all_sessions()`. Pull request courtesy of Bryan不可思议.

  References: #10421

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed 2.0 regression caused by #7744 where chains of expressions involving PostgreSQL JSON operators combined with other operators such as string concatenation would lose correct parenthesization, due to an implementation detail specific to the PostgreSQL dialect.

  References: #10479

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed SQL handling for “insertmanyvalues” when using the `BIT` datatype with the asyncpg backend. The `BIT` on asyncpg apparently requires the use of an asyncpg-specific `BitString` type which is currently exposed when using this DBAPI, making it incompatible with other PostgreSQL DBAPIs that all work with plain bitstrings here. A future fix in version 2.1 will normalize this datatype across all PG backends. Pull request courtesy Sören Oldag.

  References: #10532

### mysql

- [mysql] [bug]

  Repaired a new incompatibility in the MySQL “pre-ping” routine where the `False` argument passed to `connection.ping()`, which is intended to disable an unwanted “automatic reconnect” feature, is being deprecated in MySQL drivers and backends, and is producing warnings for some versions of MySQL’s native client drivers. It’s removed for mysqlclient, whereas for PyMySQL and drivers based on PyMySQL, the parameter will be deprecated and removed at some point, so API introspection is used to future proof against these various stages of removal.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.50

  References: #10492

### mariadb

- [mariadb] [bug]

  Adjusted the MySQL / MariaDB dialects to default a generated column to NULL when using MariaDB, if `Column.nullable` was not specified with an explicit `True` or `False` value, as MariaDB does not support the “NOT NULL” phrase with a generated column. Pull request courtesy Indivar.

  References: #10056

- [mariadb] [bug] [regression]

  Established a workaround for what seems to be an intrinsic issue across MySQL/MariaDB drivers where a RETURNING result for DELETE DML which returns no rows using SQLAlchemy’s “empty IN” criteria fails to provide a cursor.description, which then yields result that returns no rows, leading to regressions for the ORM that in the 2.0 series uses RETURNING for bulk DELETE statements for the “synchronize session” feature. To resolve, when the specific case of “no description when RETURNING was given” is detected, an “empty result” with a correct cursor description is generated and used in place of the non-working cursor.

  References: #10505

### mssql

- [mssql] [usecase]

  Added support for the `aioodbc` driver implemented for SQL Server, which builds on top of the pyodbc and general aio* dialect architecture.

  See also

  aioodbc - in the SQL Server dialect documentation.

  References: #6521

- [mssql] [bug] [reflection]

  Fixed issue where identity column reflection would fail for a bigint column with a large identity start value (more than 18 digits).

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.50

  References: #10504

### oracle

- [oracle] [bug]

  Fixed issue in `Interval` datatype where the Oracle implementation was not being used for DDL generation, leading to the `day_precision` and `second_precision` parameters to be ignored, despite being supported by this dialect. Pull request courtesy Indivar.

  References: #10509

- [oracle] [bug]

  Fixed issue where the cx_Oracle dialect claimed to support a lower cx_Oracle version (7.x) than was actually supported in practice within the 2.0 series of SQLAlchemy. The dialect imports symbols that are only in cx_Oracle 8 or higher, so runtime dialect checks as well as setup.cfg requirements have been updated to reflect this compatibility.

  References: #10470

## 2.0.22

Released: October 12, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [usecase]

  Added method `Session.get_one()` that behaves like `Session.get()` but raises an exception instead of returning `None` if no instance was found with the provided primary key. Pull request courtesy of Carlos Sousa.

  References: #10202

- [orm] [usecase]

  Added an option to permanently close sessions. Set to `False` the new parameter `Session.close_resets_only` will prevent a `Session` from performing any other operation after `Session.close()` has been called.

  Added new method `Session.reset()` that will reset a `Session` to its initial state. This is an alias of `Session.close()`, unless `Session.close_resets_only` is set to `False`.

  References: #7787

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed a wide range of `mapped_column()` parameters that were not being transferred when using the `mapped_column()` object inside of a pep-593 `Annotated` object, including `mapped_column.sort_order`, `mapped_column.deferred`, `mapped_column.autoincrement`, `mapped_column.system`, `mapped_column.info` etc.

  Additionally, it remains not supported to have dataclass arguments, such as `mapped_column.kw_only`, `mapped_column.default_factory` etc. indicated within the `mapped_column()` received by `Annotated`, as this is not supported with pep-681 Dataclass Transforms. A warning is now emitted when these parameters are used within `Annotated` in this way (and they continue to be ignored).

  References: #10046, #10369

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where calling `Result.unique()` with a new-style `select()` query in the ORM, where one or more columns yields values that are of “unknown hashability”, typically when using JSON functions like `func.json_build_object()` without providing a type, would fail internally when the returned values were not actually hashable. The behavior is repaired to test the objects as they are received for hashability in this case, raising an informative error message if not. Note that for values of “known unhashability”, such as when the `JSON` or `ARRAY` types are used directly, an informative error message was already raised.

  The “hashabiltiy testing” fix here is applied to legacy `Query` as well, however in the legacy case, `Result.unique()` is used for nearly all queries, so no new warning is emitted here; the legacy behavior of falling back to using `id()` in this case is maintained, with the improvement that an unknown type that turns out to be hashable will now be uniqufied, whereas previously it would not.

  References: #10459

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed regression in recently revised “insertmanyvalues” feature (likely issue #9618) where the ORM would inadvertently attempt to interpret a non-RETURNING result as one with RETURNING, in the case where the `implicit_returning=False` parameter were applied to the mapped `Table`, indicating that “insertmanyvalues” cannot be used if the primary key values are not provided.

  References: #10453

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed bug where ORM `with_loader_criteria()` would not apply itself to a `Select.join()` where the ON clause were given as a plain SQL comparison, rather than as a relationship target or similar.

  update - this was found to also fix an issue where single-inheritance criteria would not be correctly applied to a subclass entity that only appeared in the `select_from()` list, see #11412

  References: #10365, #11412

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where `Mapped` symbols like `WriteOnlyMapped` and `DynamicMapped` could not be correctly resolved when referenced as an element of a sub-module in the given annotation, assuming string-based or “future annotations” style annotations.

  References: #10412

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue with `__allow_unmapped__` declarative option where types that were declared using collection types such as `list[SomeClass]` vs. the typing construct `List[SomeClass]` would fail to be recognized correctly. Pull request courtesy Pascal Corpet.

  References: #10385

### engine

- [engine] [bug]

  Fixed issue within some dialects where the dialect could incorrectly return an empty result set for an INSERT statement that does not actually return rows at all, due to artfacts from pre- or post-fetching the primary key of the row or rows still being present. Affected dialects included asyncpg, all mssql dialects.

- [engine] [bug]

  Fixed issue where under some garbage collection / exception scenarios the connection pool’s cleanup routine would raise an error due to an unexpected set of state, which can be reproduced under specific conditions.

  References: #10414

### sql

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where referring to a FROM entry in the SET clause of an UPDATE statement would not include it in the FROM clause of the UPDATE statement, if that entry were nowhere else in the statement; this occurs currently for CTEs that were added using `Update.add_cte()` to provide the desired CTE at the top of the statement.

  References: #10408

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed 2.0 regression where the `DDL` construct would no longer `__repr__()` due to the removed `on` attribute not being accommodated. Pull request courtesy Iuri de Silvio.

  References: #10443

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing issue where the argument list passed to `Values` was too-restrictively tied to `List` rather than `Sequence`. Pull request courtesy Iuri de Silvio.

  References: #10451

- [typing] [bug]

  Updates to the codebase to support Mypy 1.6.0.

### asyncio

- [asyncio] [bug]

  Fixed the `AsyncSession.get.execution_options` parameter which was not being propagated to the underlying `Session` and was instead being ignored.

### mariadb

- [mariadb] [bug]

  Modified the mariadb-connector driver to pre-load the `cursor.rowcount` value for all queries, to suit tools such as Pandas that hardcode to calling `Result.rowcount` in this way. SQLAlchemy normally pre-loads `cursor.rowcount` only for UPDATE/DELETE statements and otherwise passes through to the DBAPI where it can return -1 if no value is available. However, mariadb-connector does not support invoking `cursor.rowcount` after the cursor itself is closed, raising an error instead. Generic test support has been added to ensure all backends support the allowing `Result.rowcount` to succeed (that is, returning an integer value with -1 for “not available”) after the result is closed.

  References: #10396

- [mariadb] [bug]

  Additional fixes for the mariadb-connector dialect to support UUID data values in the result in INSERT..RETURNING statements.

### mssql

- [mssql] [bug]

  Fixed bug where the rule that prevents ORDER BY from emitting within subqueries on SQL Server was not being disabled in the case where the `select.fetch()` method were used to limit rows in conjunction with WITH TIES or PERCENT, preventing valid subqueries with TOP / ORDER BY from being used.

  References: #10458

## 2.0.21

Released: September 18, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Adjusted the ORM’s interpretation of the “target” entity used within `Update` and `Delete` to not interfere with the target “from” object passed to the statement, such as when passing an ORM-mapped `aliased` construct that should be maintained within a phrase like “UPDATE FROM”. Cases like ORM session synchronize using “SELECT” statements such as with MySQL/ MariaDB will still have issues with UPDATE/DELETE of this form so it’s best to disable synchonize_session when using DML statements of this type.

  References: #10279

- [orm] [bug]

  Added new capability to the `selectin_polymorphic()` loader option which allows other loader options to be bundled as siblings, referring to one of its subclasses, within the sub-options of parent loader option. Previously, this pattern was only supported if the `selectin_polymorphic()` were at the top level of the options for the query. See new documentation section for example.

  As part of this change, improved the behavior of the `Load.selectin_polymorphic()` method / loader strategy so that the subclass load does not load most already-loaded columns from the parent table, when the option is used against a class that is already being relationship-loaded. Previously, the logic to load only the subclass columns worked only for a top level class load.

  See also

  Applying loader options when selectin_polymorphic is itself a sub-option

  References: #10348

### engine

- [engine] [bug]

  Fixed a series of reflection issues affecting the PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, and SQLite dialects when reflecting foreign key constraints where the target column contained parenthesis in one or both of the table name or column name.

  References: #10275

### sql

- [sql] [usecase]

  Adjusted the `Enum` datatype to accept an argument of `None` for the `Enum.length` parameter, resulting in a VARCHAR or other textual type with no length in the resulting DDL. This allows for new elements of any length to be added to the type after it exists in the schema. Pull request courtesy Eugene Toder.

  References: #10269

- [sql] [usecase]

  Added new generic SQL function `aggregate_strings`, which accepts a SQL expression and a decimeter, concatenating strings on multiple rows into a single aggregate value. The function is compiled on a per-backend basis, into functions such as `group_concat(),` `string_agg()`, or `LISTAGG()`. Pull request courtesy Joshua Morris.

  References: #9873

- [sql] [bug]

  Adjusted the operator precedence for the string concatenation operator to be equal to that of string matching operators, such as `ColumnElement.like()`, `ColumnElement.regexp_match()`, `ColumnElement.match()`, etc., as well as plain `==` which has the same precedence as string comparison operators, so that parenthesis will be applied to a string concatenation expression that follows a string match operator. This provides for backends such as PostgreSQL where the “regexp match” operator is apparently of higher precedence than the string concatenation operator.

  References: #9610

- [sql] [bug]

  Qualified the use of `hashlib.md5()` within the DDL compiler, which is used to generate deterministic four-character suffixes for long index and constraint names in DDL statements, to include the Python 3.9+ `usedforsecurity=False` parameter so that Python interpreters built for restricted environments such as FIPS do not consider this call to be related to security concerns.

  References: #10342

- [sql] [bug]

  The `Values` construct will now automatically create a proxy (i.e. a copy) of a `column` if the column were already associated with an existing FROM clause. This allows that an expression like `values_obj.c.colname` will produce the correct FROM clause even in the case that `colname` was passed as a `column` that was already used with a previous `Values` or other table construct. Originally this was considered to be a candidate for an error condition, however it’s likely this pattern is already in widespread use so it’s now added to support.

  References: #10280

### schema

- [schema] [bug]

  Modified the rendering of the Oracle only `Identity.order` parameter that’s part of both `Sequence` and `Identity` to only take place for the Oracle backend, and not other backends such as that of PostgreSQL. A future release will rename the `Identity.order`, `Sequence.order` and `Identity.on_null` parameters to Oracle-specific names, deprecating the old names, these parameters only apply to Oracle.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.50

  References: #10207

### typing

- [typing] [usecase]

  Made the contained type for `Mapped` covariant; this is to allow greater flexibility for end-user typing scenarios, such as the use of protocols to represent particular mapped class structures that are passed to other functions. As part of this change, the contained type was also made covariant for dependent and related types such as `SQLORMOperations`, `WriteOnlyMapped`, and `SQLColumnExpression`. Pull request courtesy Roméo Després.

  References: #10288

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed regression introduced in 2.0.20 via #9600 fix which attempted to add more formal typing to `MetaData.naming_convention`. This change prevented basic naming convention dictionaries from passing typing and has been adjusted so that a plain dictionary of strings for keys as well as dictionaries that use constraint types as keys or a mix of both, are again accepted.

  As part of this change, lesser used forms of the naming convention dictionary are also typed, including that it currently allows for `Constraint` type objects as keys as well.

  References: #10264, #9284

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed the type annotation for `__class_getitem__()` as applied to the `Visitable` class at the base of expression constructs to accept `Any` for a key, rather than `str`, which helps with some IDEs such as PyCharm when attempting to write typing annotations for SQL constructs which include generic selectors. Pull request courtesy Jordan Macdonald.

  References: #9878

- [typing] [bug]

  Repaired the core “SQL element” class `SQLCoreOperations` to support the `__hash__()` method from a typing perspective, as objects like `Column` and ORM `InstrumentedAttribute` are hashable and are used as dictionary keys in the public API for the `Update` and `Insert` constructs. Previously, type checkers were not aware the root SQL element was hashable.

  References: #10353

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing issue with `Existing.select_from()` that prevented its use with ORM classes.

  References: #10337

- [typing] [bug]

  Update type annotations for ORM loading options, restricting them to accept only “*” instead of any string for string arguments. Pull request courtesy Janek Nouvertné.

  References: #10131

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed regression which appeared in 2.0 due to #8491 where the revised “ping” used for PostgreSQL dialects when the `create_engine.pool_pre_ping` parameter is in use would interfere with the use of asyncpg with PGBouncer “transaction” mode, as the multiple PostgreSQL commands emitted by asnycpg could be broken out among multiple connections leading to errors, due to the lack of any transaction around this newly revised “ping”. The ping is now invoked within a transaction, in the same way that is implicit with all other backends that are based on the pep-249 DBAPI; this guarantees that the series of PG commands sent by asyncpg for this command are invoked on the same backend connection without it jumping to a different connection mid-command. The transaction is not used if the asyncpg dialect is used in “AUTOCOMMIT” mode, which remains incompatible with pgbouncer transaction mode.

  References: #10226

### misc

- [bug] [setup]

  Fixed very old issue where the full extent of SQLAlchemy modules, including `sqlalchemy.testing.fixtures`, could not be imported outside of a pytest run. This suits inspection utilities such as `pkgutil` that attempt to import all installed modules in all packages.

  References: #10321

## 2.0.20

Released: August 15, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [usecase]

  Implemented the “RETURNING ‘*’” use case for ORM enabled DML statements. This will render in as many cases as possible and return the unfiltered result set, however is not supported for multi-parameter “ORM bulk INSERT” statements that have specific column rendering requirements.

  References: #10192

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed fundamental issue which prevented some forms of ORM “annotations” from taking place for subqueries which made use of `Select.join()` against a relationship target. These annotations are used whenever a subquery is used in special situations such as within `PropComparator.and_()` and other ORM-specific scenarios.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.50

  References: #10223

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where the ORM’s generation of a SELECT from a joined inheritance model with same-named columns in superclass and subclass would somehow not send the correct list of column names to the `CTE` construct, when the RECURSIVE column list were generated.

  References: #10169

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed fairly major issue where execution options passed to `Session.execute()`, as well as execution options local to the ORM executed statement itself, would not be propagated along to eager loaders such as that of `selectinload()`, `immediateload()`, and `sqlalchemy.orm.subqueryload()`, making it impossible to do things such as disabling the cache for a single statement or using `schema_translate_map` for a single statement, as well as the use of user-custom execution options. A change has been made where all user-facing execution options present for `Session.execute()` will be propagated along to additional loaders.

  As part of this change, the warning for “excessively deep” eager loaders leading to caching being disabled can be silenced on a per-statement basis by sending `execution_options={"compiled_cache": None}` to `Session.execute()`, which will disable caching for the full series of statements within that scope.

  References: #10231

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where internal cloning used by the ORM for expressions like `Comparator.any()` to produce correlated EXISTS constructs would interfere with the “cartesian product warning” feature of the SQL compiler, leading the SQL compiler to warn when all elements of the statement were correctly joined.

  References: #10124

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where the `lazy="immediateload"` loader strategy would place an internal loading token into the ORM mapped attribute under circumstances where the load should not occur, such as in a recursive self-referential load. As part of this change, the `lazy="immediateload"` strategy now honors the `relationship.join_depth` parameter for self-referential eager loads in the same way as that of other eager loaders, where leaving it unset or set at zero will lead to a self-referential immediateload not occurring, setting it to a value of one or greater will immediateload up until that given depth.

  References: #10139

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where dictionary-based collections such as `attribute_keyed_dict()` did not fully pickle/unpickle correctly, leading to issues when attempting to mutate such a collection after unpickling.

  References: #10175

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where chaining `load_only()` or other wildcard use of `defer()` from another eager loader using a `aliased()` against a joined inheritance subclass would fail to take effect for columns local to the superclass.

  References: #10125

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where an ORM-enabled `select()` construct would not render any CTEs added only via the `Select.add_cte()` method that were not otherwise referenced in the statement.

  References: #10167

### examples

- [examples] [bug]

  The dogpile_caching examples have been updated for 2.0 style queries. Within the “caching query” logic itself there is one conditional added to differentiate between `Query` and `select()` when performing an invalidation operation.

### engine

- [engine] [bug]

  Fixed critical issue where setting `create_engine.isolation_level` to `AUTOCOMMIT` (as opposed to using the `Engine.execution_options()` method) would fail to restore “autocommit” to a pooled connection if an alternate isolation level were temporarily selected using `Connection.execution_options.isolation_level`.

  References: #10147

### sql

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where unpickling of a `Column` or other `ColumnElement` would fail to restore the correct “comparator” object, which is used to generate SQL expressions specific to the type object.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.50

  References: #10213

### typing

- [typing] [usecase]

  Added new typing only utility functions `Nullable()` and `NotNullable()` to type a column or ORM class as, respectively, nullable or not nullable. These function are no-op at runtime, returning the input unchanged.

  References: #10173

- [typing] [bug]

  Typing improvements:

  - `CursorResult` is returned for some forms of `Session.execute()` where DML without RETURNING is used

  - fixed type for `Query.with_for_update.of` parameter within `Query.with_for_update()`

  - improvements to `_DMLColumnArgument` type used by some DML methods to pass column expressions

  - Add overload to `literal()` so that it is inferred that the return type is `BindParameter[NullType]` where `literal.type_` param is None

  - Add overloads to `ColumnElement.op()` so that the inferred type when `ColumnElement.op.return_type` is not provided is `Callable[[Any], BinaryExpression[Any]]`

  - Add missing overload to `ColumnElement.__add__()`

  Pull request courtesy Mehdi Gmira.

  References: #9185

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed issue in `Session` and `AsyncSession` methods such as `Session.connection()` where the `Session.connection.execution_options` parameter were hardcoded to an internal type that is not user-facing.

  References: #10182

### asyncio

- [asyncio] [usecase]

  Added new methods `AsyncConnection.aclose()` as a synonym for `AsyncConnection.close()` and `AsyncSession.aclose()` as a synonym for `AsyncSession.close()` to the `AsyncConnection` and `AsyncSession` objects, to provide compatibility with Python standard library `@contextlib.aclosing` construct. Pull request courtesy Grigoriev Semyon.

  References: #9698

### mysql

- [mysql] [usecase]

  Updated aiomysql dialect since the dialect appears to be maintained again. Re-added to the ci testing using version 0.2.0.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.50

## 2.0.19

Released: July 15, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where setting a relationship collection directly, where an object in the new collection were already present, would not trigger a cascade event for that object, leading to it not being added to the `Session` if it were not already present. This is similar in nature to #6471 and is a more apparent issue due to the removal of `cascade_backrefs` in the 2.0 series. The `AttributeEvents.append_wo_mutation()` event added as part of #6471 is now also emitted for existing members of a collection that are present in a bulk set of that same collection.

  References: #10089

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where objects that were associated with an unloaded collection via backref, but were not merged into the `Session` due to the removal of `cascade_backrefs` in the 2.0 series, would not emit a warning that these objects were not being included in a flush, even though they were pending members of the collection; in other such cases, a warning is emitted when a collection being flushed contains non-attached objects which will be essentially discarded. The addition of the warning for backref-pending collection members establishes greater consistency with collections that may be present or non-present and possibly flushed or not flushed at different times based on different relationship loading strategies.

  References: #10090

- [orm] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed additional regression caused by #9805 where more aggressive propagation of the “ORM” flag on statements could lead to an internal attribute error when embedding an ORM `Query` construct that nonetheless contained no ORM entities within a Core SQL statement, in this case ORM-enabled UPDATE and DELETE statements.

  References: #10098

### engine

- [engine] [bug]

  Renamed `Row.t` and `Row.tuple()` to `Row._t` and `Row._tuple()`; this is to suit the policy that all methods and pre-defined attributes on `Row` should be in the style of Python standard library `namedtuple` where all fixed names have a leading underscore, to avoid name conflicts with existing column names. The previous method/attribute is now deprecated and will emit a deprecation warning.

  References: #10093

- [engine] [bug]

  Added detection for non-string, non-`URL` objects to the `make_url()` function, allowing `ArgumentError` to be thrown immediately, rather than causing failures later on. Special logic ensures that mock forms of `URL` are allowed through. Pull request courtesy Grigoriev Semyon.

  References: #10079

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed regression caused by improvements to PostgreSQL URL parsing in #10004 where “host” query string arguments that had colons in them, to support various third party proxy servers and/or dialects, would not parse correctly as these were evaluated as `host:port` combinations. Parsing has been updated to consider a colon as indicating a `host:port` value only if the hostname contains only alphanumeric characters with dots or dashes only (e.g. no slashes), followed by exactly one colon followed by an all-integer token of zero or more integers. In all other cases, the full string is taken as a host.

  References: #10069

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where comparisons to the `CITEXT` datatype would cast the right side to `VARCHAR`, leading to the right side not being interpreted as a `CITEXT` datatype, for the asyncpg, psycopg3 and pg80000 dialects. This led to the `CITEXT` type being essentially unusable for practical use; this is now fixed and the test suite has been corrected to properly assert that expressions are rendered correctly.

  References: #10096

## 2.0.18

Released: July 5, 2023

### engine

- [engine] [bug]

  Adjusted the `create_engine.schema_translate_map` feature such that all schema names in the statement are now tokenized, regardless of whether or not a specific name is in the immediate schema translate map given, and to fallback to substituting the original name when the key is not in the actual schema translate map at execution time. These two changes allow for repeated use of a compiled object with schema schema_translate_maps that include or dont include various keys on each run, allowing cached SQL constructs to continue to function at runtime when schema translate maps with different sets of keys are used each time. In addition, added detection of schema_translate_map dictionaries which gain or lose a `None` key across calls for the same statement, which affects compilation of the statement and is not compatible with caching; an exception is raised for these scenarios.

  References: #10025

### sql

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where the `ColumnOperators.regexp_match()` when using “flags” would not produce a “stable” cache key, that is, the cache key would keep changing each time causing cache pollution. The same issue existed for `ColumnOperators.regexp_replace()` with both the flags and the actual replacement expression. The flags are now represented as fixed modifier strings rendered as safestrings rather than bound parameters, and the replacement expression is established within the primary portion of the “binary” element so that it generates an appropriate cache key.

  Note that as part of this change, the `ColumnOperators.regexp_match.flags` and `ColumnOperators.regexp_replace.flags` have been modified to render as literal strings only, whereas previously they were rendered as full SQL expressions, typically bound parameters. These parameters should always be passed as plain Python strings and not as SQL expression constructs; it’s not expected that SQL expression constructs were used in practice for this parameter, so this is a backwards-incompatible change.

  The change also modifies the internal structure of the expression generated, for `ColumnOperators.regexp_replace()` with or without flags, and for `ColumnOperators.regexp_match()` with flags. Third party dialects which may have implemented regexp implementations of their own (no such dialects could be located in a search, so impact is expected to be low) would need to adjust the traversal of the structure to accommodate.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.49

  References: #10042

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed issue in mostly-internal `CacheKey` construct where the `__ne__()` operator were not properly implemented, leading to nonsensical results when comparing `CacheKey` instances to each other.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.49

### extensions

- [extensions] [usecase]

  Added new option to `association_proxy()` `association_proxy.create_on_none_assignment`; when an association proxy which refers to a scalar relationship is assigned the value `None`, and the referenced object is not present, a new object is created via the creator. This was apparently an undefined behavior in the 1.2 series that was silently removed.

  References: #10013

### typing

- [typing] [usecase]

  Improved typing when using standalone operator functions from `sqlalchemy.sql.operators` such as `sqlalchemy.sql.operators.eq`.

  References: #10054

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed some of the typing within the `aliased()` construct to correctly accept a `Table` object that’s been aliased with `Table.alias()`, as well as general support for `FromClause` objects to be passed as the “selectable” argument, since this is all supported.

  References: #10061

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  Added multi-host support for the asyncpg dialect. General improvements and error checking added to the PostgreSQL URL routines for the “multihost” use case added as well. Pull request courtesy Ilia Dmitriev.

  See also

  Multihost Connections

  References: #10004

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Added new parameter `native_inet_types=False` to all PostgreSQL dialects, which indicates converters used by the DBAPI to convert rows from PostgreSQL `INET` and `CIDR` columns into Python `ipaddress` datatypes should be disabled, returning strings instead. This allows code written to work with strings for these datatypes to be migrated to asyncpg, psycopg, or pg8000 without code changes other than adding this parameter to the `create_engine()` or `create_async_engine()` function call.

  See also

  Network Data Types

  References: #9945

### mariadb

- [mariadb] [usecase] [reflection]

  Allowed reflecting `UUID` columns from MariaDB. This allows Alembic to properly detect the type of such columns in existing MariaDB databases.

  References: #10028

### mssql

- [mssql] [usecase]

  Added support for creation and reflection of COLUMNSTORE indexes in MSSQL dialect. Can be specified on indexes specifying `mssql_columnstore=True`.

  References: #7340

- [mssql] [bug] [sql]

  Fixed issue where performing `Cast` to a string type with an explicit collation would render the COLLATE clause inside the CAST function, which resulted in a syntax error.

  References: #9932

## 2.0.17

Released: June 23, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression in the 2.0 series where a query that used `undefer_group()` with `selectinload()` or `subqueryload()` would raise an `AttributeError`. Pull request courtesy of Matthew Martin.

  References: #9870

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue in ORM Annotated Declarative which prevented a `declared_attr` from being used on a mixin which did not return a `Mapped` datatype, and instead returned a supplemental ORM datatype such as `AssociationProxy`. The Declarative runtime would erroneously try to interpret this annotation as needing to be `Mapped` and raise an error.

  References: #9957

- [orm] [bug] [typing]

  Fixed typing issue where using the `AssociationProxy` return type from a `declared_attr` function was disallowed.

  References: #9957

- [orm] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression introduced in 2.0.16 by #9879 where passing a callable to the `mapped_column.default` parameter of `mapped_column` while also setting `init=False` would interpret this value as a Dataclass default value which would be assigned directly to new instances of the object directly, bypassing the default generator taking place as the `Column.default` value generator on the underlying `Column`. This condition is now detected so that the previous behavior is maintained, however a deprecation warning for this ambiguous use is emitted; to populate the default generator for a `Column`, the `mapped_column.insert_default` parameter should be used, which disambiguates from the `mapped_column.default` parameter whose name is fixed as per pep-681.

  References: #9936

- [orm] [bug]

  Additional hardening and documentation for the ORM `Session` “state change” system, which detects concurrent use of `Session` and `AsyncSession` objects; an additional check is added within the process to acquire connections from the underlying engine, which is a critical section with regards to internal connection management.

  References: #9973

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue in ORM loader strategy logic which further allows for long chains of `contains_eager()` loader options across complex inheriting polymorphic / aliased / of_type() relationship chains to take proper effect in queries.

  References: #10006

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue in support for the `Enum` datatype in the `registry.type_annotation_map` first added as part of #8859 where using a custom `Enum` with fixed configuration in the map would fail to transfer the `Enum.name` parameter, which among other issues would prevent PostgreSQL enums from working if the enum values were passed as individual values. Logic has been updated so that “name” is transferred over, but also that the default `Enum` which is against the plain Python enum.Enum class or other “empty” enum won’t set a hardcoded name of `"enum"` either.

  References: #9963

### orm declarative

- [orm] [declarative] [bug]

  A warning is emitted when an ORM `relationship()` and other `MapperProperty` objects are assigned to two different class attributes at once; only one of the attributes will be mapped. A warning for this condition was already in place for `Column` and `mapped_column` objects.

  References: #3532

### extensions

- [extensions] [bug]

  Fixed issue in mypy plugin for use with mypy 1.4.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.49

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing issue which prevented `WriteOnlyMapped` and `DynamicMapped` attributes from being used fully within ORM queries.

  References: #9985

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  The pg8000 dialect now supports RANGE and MULTIRANGE datatypes, using the existing RANGE API described at Range and Multirange Types. Range and multirange types are supported in the pg8000 driver from version 1.29.8. Pull request courtesy Tony Locke.

  References: #9965

## 2.0.16

Released: June 10, 2023

### platform

- [platform] [usecase]

  Compatibility improvements allowing the complete test suite to pass on Python 3.12.0b1.

### orm

- [orm] [usecase]

  Improved `DeferredReflection.prepare()` to accept arbitrary `**kw` arguments that are passed to `MetaData.reflect()`, allowing use cases such as reflection of views as well as dialect-specific arguments to be passed. Additionally, modernized the `DeferredReflection.prepare.bind` argument so that either an `Engine` or `Connection` are accepted as the “bind” argument.

  References: #9828

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where `DeclarativeBaseNoMeta` declarative base class would not function with non-mapped mixins or abstract classes, raising an `AttributeError` instead.

  References: #9862

- [orm] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression in the 2.0 series where the default value of `validates.include_backrefs` got changed to `False` for the `validates()` function. This default is now restored to `True`.

  References: #9820

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed bug in new feature which allows a WHERE clause to be used in conjunction with ORM Bulk UPDATE by Primary Key, added in version 2.0.11 as part of #9583, where sending dictionaries that did not include the primary key values for each row would run through the bulk process and include “pk=NULL” for the rows, silently failing. An exception is now raised if primary key values for bulk UPDATE are not supplied.

  References: #9917

- [orm] [bug] [dataclasses]

  Fixed an issue where generating dataclasses fields that specified a `default` value and set `init=False` would not work. The dataclasses behavior in this case is to set the default value on the class, that’s not compatible with the descriptors used by SQLAlchemy. To support this case the default is transformed to a `default_factory` when generating the dataclass.

  References: #9879

- [orm] [bug]

  A deprecation warning is emitted whenever a property is added to a `Mapper` where an ORM mapped property were already configured, or an attribute is already present on the class. Previously, there was a non-deprecation warning for this case that did not emit consistently. The logic for this warning has been improved so that it detects end-user replacement of attribute while not having false positives for internal Declarative and other cases where replacement of descriptors with new ones is expected.

  References: #9841

- [orm] [bug]

  Improved the argument checking on the `map_imperatively.local_table` parameter of the `registry.map_imperatively()` method, ensuring only a `Table` or other `FromClause` is passed, and not an existing mapped class, which would lead to undefined behavior as the object were further interpreted for a new mapping.

  References: #9869

- [orm] [bug]

  The `InstanceState.unloaded_expirable` attribute is a synonym for `InstanceState.unloaded`, and is now deprecated; this attribute was always implementation-specific and should not have been public.

  References: #9913

### asyncio

- [asyncio] [usecase]

  Added new `create_async_engine.async_creator` parameter to `create_async_engine()`, which accomplishes the same purpose as the `create_engine.creator` parameter of `create_engine()`. This is a no-argument callable that provides a new asyncio connection, using the asyncio database driver directly. The `create_async_engine()` function will wrap the driver-level connection in the appropriate structures. Pull request courtesy of Jack Wotherspoon.

  References: #8215

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [usecase] [reflection]

  Cast `NAME` columns to `TEXT` when using `ARRAY_AGG` in PostgreSQL reflection. This seems to improve compatibility with some PostgreSQL derivatives that may not support aggregations on the `NAME` type.

  References: #9838

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  Unified the custom PostgreSQL operator definitions, since they are shared among multiple different data types.

  References: #9041

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  Added support for PostgreSQL 10 `NULLS NOT DISTINCT` feature of unique indexes and unique constraint using the dialect option `postgresql_nulls_not_distinct`. Updated the reflection logic to also correctly take this option into account. Pull request courtesy of Pavel Siarchenia.

  References: #8240

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Use proper precedence on PostgreSQL specific operators, such as `@>`. Previously the precedence was wrong, leading to wrong parenthesis when rendering against and `ANY` or `ALL` construct.

  References: #9836

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where the `ColumnOperators.like.escape` and similar parameters did not allow an empty string as an argument that would be passed through as the “escape” character; this is a supported syntax by PostgreSQL. Pull request courtesy Martin Caslavsky.

  References: #9907

## 2.0.15

Released: May 19, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  As more projects are using new-style “2.0” ORM querying, it’s becoming apparent that the conditional nature of “autoflush”, being based on whether or not the given statement refers to ORM entities, is becoming more of a key behavior. Up until now, the “ORM” flag for a statement has been loosely based around whether or not the statement returns rows that correspond to ORM entities or columns; the original purpose of the “ORM” flag was to enable ORM-entity fetching rules which apply post-processing to Core result sets as well as ORM loader strategies to the statement. For statements that don’t build on rows that contain ORM entities, the “ORM” flag was considered to be mostly unnecessary.

  It still may be the case that “autoflush” would be better taking effect for all usage of `Session.execute()` and related methods, even for purely Core SQL constructs. However, this still could impact legacy cases where this is not expected and may be more of a 2.1 thing. For now however, the rules for the “ORM-flag” have been opened up so that a statement that includes ORM entities or attributes anywhere within, including in the WHERE / ORDER BY / GROUP BY clause alone, within scalar subqueries, etc. will enable this flag. This will cause “autoflush” to occur for such statements and also be visible via the `ORMExecuteState.is_orm_statement` event-level attribute.

  References: #9805

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug] [regression]

  Repaired the base `Uuid` datatype for the PostgreSQL dialect to make full use of the PG-specific `UUID` dialect-specific datatype when “native_uuid” is selected, so that PG driver behaviors are included. This issue became apparent due to the insertmanyvalues improvement made as part of #9618, where in a similar manner as that of #9739, the asyncpg driver is very sensitive to datatype casts being present or not, and the PostgreSQL driver-specific native `UUID` datatype must be invoked when this generic type is used so that these casts take place.

  References: #9808

## 2.0.14

Released: May 18, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Modified the `JoinedLoader` implementation to use a simpler approach in one particular area where it previously used a cached structure that would be shared among threads. The rationale is to avoid a potential race condition which is suspected of being the cause of a particular crash that’s been reported multiple times. The cached structure in question is still ultimately “cached” via the compiled SQL cache, so a performance degradation is not anticipated.

  References: #9777

- [orm] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression where use of `update()` or `delete()` within a `CTE` construct, then used in a `select()`, would raise a `CompileError` as a result of ORM related rules for performing ORM-level update/delete statements.

  References: #9767

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue in new ORM Annotated Declarative where using a `ForeignKey` (or other column-level constraint) inside of `mapped_column()` which is then copied out to models via pep-593 `Annotated` would apply duplicates of each constraint to the `Column` as produced in the target `Table`, leading to incorrect CREATE TABLE DDL as well as migration directives under Alembic.

  References: #9766

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where using additional relationship criteria with the `joinedload()` loader option, where the additional criteria itself contained correlated subqueries that referred to the joined entities and therefore also required “adaption” to aliased entities, would be excluded from this adaption, producing the wrong ON clause for the joinedload.

  References: #9779

### sql

- [sql] [usecase]

  Generalized the MSSQL `try_cast()` function into the `sqlalchemy.` import namespace so that it may be implemented by third party dialects as well. Within SQLAlchemy, the `try_cast()` function remains a SQL Server-only construct that will raise `CompileError` if used with backends that don’t support it.

  `try_cast()` implements a CAST where un-castable conversions are returned as NULL, instead of raising an error. Theoretically, the construct could be implemented by third party dialects for Google BigQuery, DuckDB, and Snowflake, and possibly others.

  Pull request courtesy Nick Crews.

  References: #9752

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed issue in `values()` construct where an internal compilation error would occur if the construct were used inside of a scalar subquery.

  References: #9772

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed apparently very old issue where the `ENUM.create_type` parameter, when set to its non-default of `False`, would not be propagated when the `Column` which it’s a part of were copied, as is common when using ORM Declarative mixins.

  References: #9773

### tests

- [tests] [bug] [pypy]

  Fixed test that relied on the `sys.getsizeof()` function to not run on pypy, where this function appears to have different behavior than it does on cpython.

  References: #9789

## 2.0.13

Released: May 10, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where ORM Annotated Declarative would not resolve forward references correctly in all cases; in particular, when using `from __future__ import annotations` in combination with Pydantic dataclasses.

  References: #9717

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue in new Using RETURNING with upsert statements feature where the `populate_existing` execution option was not being propagated to the loading option, preventing existing attributes from being refreshed in-place.

  References: #9746

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed loader strategy pathing issues where eager loaders such as `joinedload()` / `selectinload()` would fail to traverse fully for many-levels deep following a load that had a `with_polymorphic()` or similar construct as an interim member.

  References: #9715

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue in `mapped_column()` construct where the correct warning for “column X named directly multiple times” would not be emitted when ORM mapped attributes referred to the same `Column`, if the `mapped_column()` construct were involved, raising an internal assertion instead.

  References: #9630

### sql

- [sql] [usecase]

  Implemented the “cartesian product warning” for UPDATE and DELETE statements, those which include multiple tables that are not correlated together in some way.

  References: #9721

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed the base class for dialect-specific float/double types; Oracle `BINARY_DOUBLE` now subclasses `Double`, and internal types for `Float` for asyncpg and pg8000 now correctly subclass `Float`.

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where `update()` construct that included multiple tables and no VALUES clause would raise with an internal error. Current behavior for `Update` with no values is to generate a SQL UPDATE statement with an empty “set” clause, so this has been made consistent for this specific sub-case.

### schema

- [schema] [performance]

  Improved how table columns are added, avoiding unnecessary allocations, significantly speeding up the creation of many table, like when reflecting entire schemas.

  References: #9597

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing for the `Session.get.with_for_update` parameter of `Session.get()` and `Session.refresh()` (as well as corresponding methods on `AsyncSession`) to accept boolean `True` and all other argument forms accepted by the parameter at runtime.

  References: #9762

- [typing] [sql]

  Added type `ColumnExpressionArgument` as a public-facing type that indicates column-oriented arguments which are passed to SQLAlchemy constructs, such as `Select.where()`, `and_()` and others. This may be used to add typing to end-user functions which call these methods.

  References: #9656

### asyncio

- [asyncio] [usecase]

  Added a new helper mixin `AsyncAttrs` that seeks to improve the use of lazy-loader and other expired or deferred ORM attributes with asyncio, providing a simple attribute accessor that provides an `await` interface to any ORM attribute, whether or not it needs to emit SQL.

  See also

  `AsyncAttrs`

  References: #9731

- [asyncio] [bug]

  Fixed issue in semi-private `await_only()` and `await_fallback()` concurrency functions where the given awaitable would remain un-awaited if the function threw a `GreenletError`, which could cause “was not awaited” warnings later on if the program continued. In this case, the given awaitable is now cancelled before the exception is thrown.

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed another regression due to the “insertmanyvalues” change in 2.0.10 as part of #9618, in a similar way as regression #9701, where `LargeBinary` datatypes also need additional casts on when using the asyncpg driver specifically in order to work with the new bulk INSERT format.

  References: #9739

### oracle

- [oracle] [reflection]

  Added reflection support in the Oracle dialect to expression based indexes and the ordering direction of index expressions.

  References: #9597

### misc

- [bug] [ext]

  Fixed issue in `Mutable` where event registration for ORM mapped attributes would be called repeatedly for mapped inheritance subclasses, leading to duplicate events being invoked in inheritance hierarchies.

  References: #9676

## 2.0.12

Released: April 30, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed critical caching issue where the combination of `aliased()` and `hybrid_property()` expression compositions would cause a cache key mismatch, leading to cache keys that held onto the actual `aliased()` object while also not matching that of equivalent constructs, filling up the cache.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.48

  References: #9728

### mysql

- [mysql] [bug] [mariadb]

  Fixed issues regarding reflection of comments for `Table` and `Column` objects, where the comments contained control characters such as newlines. Additional testing support for these characters as well as extended Unicode characters in table and column comments (the latter of which aren’t supported by MySQL/MariaDB) added to testing overall.

  References: #9722

## 2.0.11

Released: April 26, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [usecase]

  The ORM bulk INSERT and UPDATE features now add these capabilities:

  - The requirement that extra parameters aren’t passed when using ORM INSERT using the “orm” dml_strategy setting is lifted.

  - The requirement that additional WHERE criteria is not passed when using ORM UPDATE using the “bulk” dml_strategy setting is lifted. Note that in this case, the check for expected row count is turned off.

  References: #9583, #9595

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed 2.0 regression where use of `bindparam()` inside of `Insert.values()` would fail to be interpreted correctly when executing the `Insert` statement using the ORM `Session`, due to the new ORM-enabled insert feature not implementing this use case.

  References: #9583, #9595

### engine

- [engine] [performance]

  A series of performance enhancements to `Row`:

  - `__getattr__` performance of the row’s “named tuple” interface has been improved; within this change, the `Row` implementation has been streamlined, removing constructs and logic that were specific to the 1.4 and prior series of SQLAlchemy. As part of this change, the serialization format of `Row` has been modified slightly, however rows which were pickled with previous SQLAlchemy 2.0 releases will be recognized within the new format. Pull request courtesy J. Nick Koston.

  - Improved row processing performance for “binary” datatypes by making the “bytes” handler conditional on a per driver basis. As a result, the “bytes” result handler has been removed for nearly all drivers other than psycopg2, all of which in modern forms support returning Python “bytes” directly. Pull request courtesy J. Nick Koston.

  - Additional refactorings inside of `Row` to improve performance by Federico Caselli.

  References: #9678, #9680

- [engine] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression which prevented the `URL.normalized_query` attribute of `URL` from functioning.

  References: #9682

### sql

- [sql] [usecase]

  Added support for slice access with `ColumnCollection`, e.g. `table.c[0:5]`, `subquery.c[:-1]` etc. Slice access returns a sub `ColumnCollection` in the same way as passing a tuple of keys. This is a natural continuation of the key-tuple access added for #8285, where it appears to be an oversight that the slice access use case was omitted.

  References: #8285

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Improved typing of `RowMapping` to indicate that it support also `Column` as index objects, not only string names. Pull request courtesy Andy Freeland.

  References: #9644

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed critical regression caused by #9618, which modified the architecture of the insertmanyvalues feature for 2.0.10, which caused floating point values to lose all decimal places when being inserted using the insertmanyvalues feature with either the psycopg2 or psycopg drivers.

  References: #9701

### mssql

- [mssql] [bug]

  Implemented the `Double` type for SQL Server, where it will render `DOUBLE PRECISION` at DDL time. This is implemented using a new MSSQL datatype `DOUBLE_PRECISION` which also may be used directly.

### oracle

- [oracle] [bug]

  Fixed issue in Oracle dialects where `Decimal` returning types such as `Numeric` would return floating point values, rather than `Decimal` objects, when these columns were used in the `Insert.returning()` clause to return INSERTed values.

## 2.0.10

Released: April 21, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed bug where various ORM-specific getters such as `ORMExecuteState.is_column_load`, `ORMExecuteState.is_relationship_load`, `ORMExecuteState.loader_strategy_path` etc. would throw an `AttributeError` if the SQL statement itself were a “compound select” such as a UNION.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.48

  References: #9634

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where the `declared_attr.directive()` modifier was not correctly honored for subclasses when applied to the `__mapper_args__` special method name, as opposed to direct use of `declared_attr`. The two constructs should have identical runtime behaviors.

  References: #9625

- [orm] [bug]

  Made an improvement to the `with_loader_criteria()` loader option to allow it to be indicated in the `Executable.options()` method of a top-level statement that is not itself an ORM statement. Examples include `select()` that’s embedded in compound statements such as `union()`, within an `Insert.from_select()` construct, as well as within CTE expressions that are not ORM related at the top level.

  References: #9635

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed bug in ORM bulk insert feature where additional unnecessary columns would be rendered in the INSERT statement if RETURNING of individual columns were requested.

  References: #9685

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed bug in ORM Declarative Dataclasses where the `query_expression()` and `column_property()` constructs, which are documented as read-only constructs in the context of a Declarative mapping, could not be used with a `MappedAsDataclass` class without adding `init=False`, which in the case of `query_expression()` was not possible as no `init` parameter was included. These constructs have been modified from a dataclass perspective to be assumed to be “read only”, setting `init=False` by default and no longer including them in the pep-681 constructor. The dataclass parameters for `column_property()` `init`, `default`, `default_factory`, `kw_only` are now deprecated; these fields don’t apply to `column_property()` as used in a Declarative dataclasses configuration where the construct would be read-only. Also added read-specific parameter `query_expression.compare` to `query_expression()`; `query_expression.repr` was already present.

  References: #9628

- [orm] [bug]

  Added missing `mapped_column.active_history` parameter to `mapped_column()` construct.

### engine

- [engine] [usecase]

  Added `create_pool_from_url()` and `create_async_pool_from_url()` to create a `Pool` instance from an input url passed as string or `URL`.

  References: #9613

- [engine] [bug]

  Repaired a major shortcoming which was identified in the “Insert Many Values” Behavior for INSERT statements performance optimization feature first introduced in the 2.0 series. This was a continuation of the change in 2.0.9 which disabled the SQL Server version of the feature due to a reliance in the ORM on apparent row ordering that is not guaranteed to take place. The fix applies new logic to all “insertmanyvalues” operations, which takes effect when a new parameter `Insert.returning.sort_by_parameter_order` on the `Insert.returning()` or `UpdateBase.return_defaults()` methods, that through a combination of alternate SQL forms, direct correspondence of client side parameters, and in some cases downgrading to running row-at-a-time, will apply sorting to each batch of returned rows using correspondence to primary key or other unique values in each row which can be correlated to the input data.

  Performance impact is expected to be minimal as nearly all common primary key scenarios are suitable for parameter-ordered batching to be achieved for all backends other than SQLite, while “row-at-a-time” mode operates with a bare minimum of Python overhead compared to the very heavyweight approaches used in the 1.x series. For SQLite, there is no difference in performance when “row-at-a-time” mode is used.

  It’s anticipated that with an efficient “row-at-a-time” INSERT with RETURNING batching capability, the “insertmanyvalues” feature can be later be more easily generalized to third party backends that include RETURNING support but not necessarily easy ways to guarantee a correspondence with parameter order.

  See also

  Correlating RETURNING rows to parameter sets

  References: #9603, #9618

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Added typing information for recently added operators `ColumnOperators.icontains()`, `ColumnOperators.istartswith()`, `ColumnOperators.iendswith()`, and bitwise operators `ColumnOperators.bitwise_and()`, `ColumnOperators.bitwise_or()`, `ColumnOperators.bitwise_xor()`, `ColumnOperators.bitwise_not()`, `ColumnOperators.bitwise_lshift()` `ColumnOperators.bitwise_rshift()`. Pull request courtesy Martijn Pieters.

  References: #9650

- [typing] [bug]

  Updates to the codebase to pass typing with Mypy 1.2.0.

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing issue where `PropComparator.and_()` expressions would not be correctly typed inside of loader options such as `selectinload()`.

  References: #9669

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  Added `prepared_statement_name_func` connection argument option in the asyncpg dialect. This option allows passing a callable used to customize the name of the prepared statement that will be created by the driver when executing queries. Pull request courtesy Pavel Sirotkin.

  See also

  Prepared Statement Name with PGBouncer

  References: #9608

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  Add missing `Range.intersection()` method. Pull request courtesy Yurii Karabas.

  References: #9509

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Restored the `ENUM.name` parameter as optional in the signature for `ENUM`, as this is chosen automatically from a given pep-435 `Enum` type.

  References: #9611

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where the comparison for `ENUM` against a plain string would cast that right-hand side type as VARCHAR, which due to more explicit casting added to dialects such as asyncpg would produce a PostgreSQL type mismatch error.

  References: #9621

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed issue that prevented reflection of expression based indexes with long expressions in PostgreSQL. The expression where erroneously truncated to the identifier length (that’s 63 bytes by default).

  References: #9615

### mssql

- [mssql] [bug]

  Restored the insertmanyvalues feature for Microsoft SQL Server. This feature was disabled in version 2.0.9 due to an apparent reliance on the ordering of RETURNING that is not guaranteed. The architecture of the “insertmanyvalues” feature has been reworked to accommodate for specific organizations of INSERT statements and result row handling that can guarantee the correspondence of returned rows to input records.

  See also

  Correlating RETURNING rows to parameter sets

  References: #9603, #9618

### oracle

- [oracle] [bug]

  Fixed issue where the `Uuid` datatype could not be used in an INSERT..RETURNING clause with the Oracle dialect.

## 2.0.9

Released: April 5, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed endless loop which could occur when using “relationship to aliased class” feature and also indicating a recursive eager loader such as `lazy="selectinload"` in the loader, in combination with another eager loader on the opposite side. The check for cycles has been fixed to include aliased class relationships.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.48

  References: #9590

### mariadb

- [mariadb] [bug]

  Added `row_number` as reserved word in MariaDb.

  References: #9588

### mssql

- [mssql] [bug]

  The SQLAlchemy “insertmanyvalues” feature which allows fast INSERT of many rows while also supporting RETURNING is temporarily disabled for SQL Server. As the unit of work currently relies upon this feature such that it matches existing ORM objects to returned primary key identities, this particular use pattern does not work with SQL Server in all cases as the order of rows returned by “OUTPUT inserted” may not always match the order in which the tuples were sent, leading to the ORM making the wrong decisions about these objects in subsequent operations.

  The feature will be re-enabled in an upcoming release and will again take effect for multi-row INSERT statements, however the unit-of-work’s use of the feature will be disabled, possibly for all dialects, unless ORM-mapped tables also include a “sentinel” column so that the returned rows can be referenced back to the original data passed in.

  References: #9603

- [mssql] [bug]

  Changed the bulk INSERT strategy used for SQL Server “executemany” with pyodbc when `fast_executemany` is set to `True` by using `fast_executemany` / `cursor.executemany()` for bulk INSERT that does not include RETURNING, restoring the same behavior as was used in SQLAlchemy 1.4 when this parameter is set.

  New performance details from end users have shown that `fast_executemany` is still much faster for very large datasets as it uses ODBC commands that can receive all rows in a single round trip, allowing for much larger datasizes than the batches that can be sent by “insertmanyvalues” as was implemented for SQL Server.

  While this change was made such that “insertmanyvalues” continued to be used for INSERT that includes RETURNING, as well as if `fast_executemany` were not set, due to #9603, the “insertmanyvalues” strategy has been disabled for SQL Server across the board in any case.

  References: #9586

## 2.0.8

Released: March 31, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [usecase]

  Exceptions such as `TypeError` and `ValueError` raised by Python dataclasses when making use of the `MappedAsDataclass` mixin class or `registry.mapped_as_dataclass()` decorator are now wrapped within an `InvalidRequestError` wrapper along with informative context about the error message, referring to the Python dataclasses documentation as the authoritative source of background information on the cause of the exception.

  See also

  Python dataclasses error encountered when creating dataclass for <classname>

  References: #9563

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue in ORM Annotated Declarative where using a recursive type (e.g. using a nested Dict type) would result in a recursion overflow in the ORM’s annotation resolution logic, even if this datatype were not necessary to map the column.

  References: #9553

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where the `mapped_column()` construct would raise an internal error if used on a Declarative mixin and included the `mapped_column.deferred` parameter.

  References: #9550

- [orm] [bug]

  Expanded the warning emitted when a plain `column()` object is present in a Declarative mapping to include any arbitrary SQL expression that is not declared within an appropriate property type such as `column_property()`, `deferred()`, etc. These attributes are otherwise not mapped at all and remain unchanged within the class dictionary. As it seems likely that such an expression is usually not what’s intended, this case now warns for all such otherwise ignored expressions, rather than just the `column()` case.

  References: #9537

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed regression where accessing the expression value of a hybrid property on a class that was either unmapped or not-yet-mapped (such as calling upon it within a `declared_attr()` method) would raise an internal error, as an internal fetch for the parent class’ mapper would fail and an instruction for this failure to be ignored were inadvertently removed in 2.0.

  References: #9519

- [orm] [bug]

  Fields that are declared on Declarative Mixins and then combined with classes that make use of `MappedAsDataclass`, where those mixin fields are not themselves part of a dataclass, now emit a deprecation warning as these fields will be ignored in a future release, as Python dataclasses behavior is to ignore these fields. Type checkers will not see these fields under pep-681.

  See also

  When transforming <cls> to a dataclass, attribute(s) originate from superclass <cls> which is not a dataclass. - background on rationale

  Using mixins and abstract superclasses

  References: #9350

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where the `BindParameter.render_literal_execute()` method would fail when called on a parameter that also had ORM annotations associated with it. In practice, this would be observed as a failure of SQL compilation when using some combinations of a dialect that uses “FETCH FIRST” such as Oracle along with a `Select` construct that uses `Select.limit()`, within some ORM contexts, including if the statement were embedded within a relationship primaryjoin expression.

  References: #9526

- [orm] [bug]

  Towards maintaining consistency with unit-of-work changes made for #5984 and #8862, both of which disable “lazy=’raise’” handling within `Session` processes that aren’t triggered by attribute access, the `Session.delete()` method will now also disable “lazy=’raise’” handling when it traverses relationship paths in order to process the “delete” and “delete-orphan” cascade rules. Previously, there was no easy way to generically call `Session.delete()` on an object that had “lazy=’raise’” set up such that only the necessary relationships would be loaded. As “lazy=’raise’” is primarily intended to catch SQL loading that emits on attribute access, `Session.delete()` is now made to behave like other `Session` methods including `Session.merge()` as well as `Session.flush()` along with autoflush.

  References: #9549

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where an annotation-only `Mapped` directive could not be used in a Declarative mixin class, without that attribute attempting to take effect for single- or joined-inheritance subclasses of mapped classes that had already mapped that attribute on a superclass, producing conflicting column errors and/or warnings.

  References: #9564

- [orm] [bug] [typing]

  Properly type `Insert.from_select.names` to accept a list of string or columns or mapped attributes.

  References: #9514

### examples

- [examples] [bug]

  Fixed issue in “versioned history” example where using a declarative base that is derived from `DeclarativeBase` would fail to be mapped. Additionally, repaired the given test suite so that the documented instructions for running the example using Python unittest now work again.

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing for `deferred()` and `query_expression()` to work correctly with 2.0 style mappings.

  References: #9536

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed critical regression in PostgreSQL dialects such as asyncpg which rely upon explicit casts in SQL in order for datatypes to be passed to the driver correctly, where a `String` datatype would be cast along with the exact column length being compared, leading to implicit truncation when comparing a `VARCHAR` of a smaller length to a string of greater length regardless of operator in use (e.g. LIKE, MATCH, etc.). The PostgreSQL dialect now omits the length from `VARCHAR` when rendering these casts.

  References: #9511

### mysql

- [mysql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where string datatypes such as `CHAR`, `VARCHAR`, `TEXT`, as well as binary `BLOB`, could not be produced with an explicit length of zero, which has special meaning for MySQL. Pull request courtesy J. Nick Koston.

  References: #9544

### misc

- [bug] [util]

  Implemented missing methods `copy` and `pop` in OrderedSet class.

  References: #9487

## 2.0.7

Released: March 18, 2023

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing issue where `composite()` would not allow an arbitrary callable as the source of the composite class.

  References: #9502

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  Added new PostgreSQL type `CITEXT`. Pull request courtesy Julian David Rath.

  References: #9416

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  Modifications to the base PostgreSQL dialect to allow for better integration with the sqlalchemy-redshift third party dialect for SQLAlchemy 2.0. Pull request courtesy matthewgdv.

  References: #9442

## 2.0.6

Released: March 13, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed bug where the “active history” feature was not fully implemented for composite attributes, making it impossible to receive events that included the “old” value. This seems to have been the case with older SQLAlchemy versions as well, where “active_history” would be propagated to the underlying column-based attributes, but an event handler listening to the composite attribute itself would not be given the “old” value being replaced, even if the composite() were set up with active_history=True.

  Additionally, fixed a regression that’s local to 2.0 which disallowed active_history on composite from being assigned to the impl with `attr.impl.active_history=True`.

  References: #9460

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed regression involving pickling of Python rows between the cython and pure Python implementations of `Row`, which occurred as part of refactoring code for version 2.0 with typing. A particular constant were turned into a string based `Enum` for the pure Python version of `Row` whereas the cython version continued to use an integer constant, leading to deserialization failures.

  References: #9418

### sql

- [sql] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression where the fix for #8098, which was released in the 1.4 series and provided a layer of concurrency-safe checks for the lambda SQL API, included additional fixes in the patch that failed to be applied to the main branch. These additional fixes have been applied.

  References: #9461

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed regression where the `select()` construct would not be able to render if it were given no columns and then used in the context of an EXISTS, raising an internal exception instead. While an empty “SELECT” is not typically valid SQL, in the context of EXISTS databases such as PostgreSQL allow it, and in any case the condition now no longer raises an internal exception.

  References: #9440

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing issue where `ColumnElement.cast()` did not allow a `TypeEngine` argument independent of the type of the `ColumnElement` itself, which is the purpose of `ColumnElement.cast()`.

  References: #9451

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed issues to allow typing tests to pass under Mypy 1.1.1.

### oracle

- [oracle] [bug]

  Fixed reflection bug where Oracle “name normalize” would not work correctly for reflection of symbols that are in the “PUBLIC” schema, such as synonyms, meaning the PUBLIC name could not be indicated as lower case on the Python side for the `Table.schema` argument. Using uppercase “PUBLIC” would work, but would then lead to awkward SQL queries including a quoted `"PUBLIC"` name as well as indexing the table under uppercase “PUBLIC”, which was inconsistent.

  References: #9459

## 2.0.5.post1

Released: March 5, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Added constructor arguments to the built-in mapping collection types including `KeyFuncDict`, `attribute_keyed_dict()`, `column_keyed_dict()` so that these dictionary types may be constructed in place given the data up front; this provides further compatibility with tools such as Python dataclasses `.asdict()` which relies upon invoking these classes directly as ordinary dictionary classes.

  References: #9418

- [orm] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed multiple regressions due to #8372, involving `attribute_mapped_collection()` (now called `attribute_keyed_dict()`).

  First, the collection was no longer usable with “key” attributes that were not themselves ordinary mapped attributes; attributes linked to descriptors and/or association proxy attributes have been fixed.

  Second, if an event or other operation needed access to the “key” in order to populate the dictionary from an mapped attribute that was not loaded, this also would raise an error inappropriately, rather than trying to load the attribute as was the behavior in 1.4. This is also fixed.

  For both cases, the behavior of #8372 has been expanded. #8372 introduced an error that raises when the derived key that would be used as a mapped dictionary key is effectively unassigned. In this change, a warning only is emitted if the effective value of the “.key” attribute is `None`, where it cannot be unambiguously determined if this `None` was intentional or not. `None` will be not supported as mapped collection dictionary keys going forward (as it typically refers to NULL which means “unknown”). Setting `attribute_keyed_dict.ignore_unpopulated_attribute` will now cause such `None` keys to be ignored as well.

  References: #9424

- [orm] [bug]

  Identified that the `sqlite` and `mssql+pyodbc` dialects are now compatible with the SQLAlchemy ORM’s “versioned rows” feature, since SQLAlchemy now computes rowcount for a RETURNING statement in this specific case by counting the rows returned, rather than relying upon `cursor.rowcount`. In particular, the ORM versioned rows use case (documented at Configuring a Version Counter) should now be fully supported with the SQL Server pyodbc dialect.

- [orm] [bug]

  Added support for the `Mapper.polymorphic_load` parameter to be applied to each mapper in an inheritance hierarchy more than one level deep, allowing columns to load for all classes in the hierarchy that indicate `"selectin"` using a single statement, rather than ignoring elements on those intermediary classes that nonetheless indicate they also would participate in `"selectin"` loading and were not part of the base-most SELECT statement.

  References: #9373

- [orm] [bug]

  Continued the fix for #8853, allowing the `Mapped` name to be fully qualified regardless of whether or not `from __annotations__ import future` were present. This issue first fixed in 2.0.0b3 confirmed that this case worked via the test suite, however the test suite apparently was not testing the behavior for the name `Mapped` not being locally present at all; string resolution has been updated to ensure the `Mapped` symbol is locatable as applies to how the ORM uses these functions.

  References: #8853, #9335

### orm declarative

- [bug] [orm declarative]

  Fixed issue where new `mapped_column.use_existing_column` feature would not work if the two same-named columns were mapped under attribute names that were differently-named from an explicit name given to the column itself. The attribute names can now be differently named when using this parameter.

  References: #9332

### engine

- [engine] [performance]

  A small optimization to the Cython implementation of `Result` using a cdef for a particular int value to avoid Python overhead. Pull request courtesy Matus Valo.

  References: #9343

- [engine] [bug]

  Fixed bug where `Row` objects could not be reliably unpickled across processes due to an accidental reliance on an unstable hash value.

  References: #9423

### sql

- [sql] [bug] [regression]

  Restore the `nullslast()` and `nullsfirst()` legacy functions into the `sqlalchemy` import namespace. Previously, the newer `nulls_last()` and `nulls_first()` functions were available, but the legacy ones were inadvertently removed.

  References: #9390

### schema

- [schema]

  Validate that when provided the `MetaData.schema` argument of `MetaData` is a string.

### typing

- [typing] [usecase]

  Exported the type returned by `scoped_session.query_property()` using a new public type `QueryPropertyDescriptor`.

  References: #9338

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed bug where the `Connection.scalars()` method was not typed as allowing a multiple-parameters list, which is now supported using insertmanyvalues operations.

- [typing] [bug]

  Improved typing for the mapping passed to `Insert.values()` and `Update.values()` to be more open-ended about collection type, by indicating read-only `Mapping` instead of writeable `Dict` which would error out on too limited of a key type.

  References: #9376

- [typing] [bug]

  Added missing init overload to the `Numeric` type object so that pep-484 type checkers may properly resolve the complete type, deriving from the `Numeric.asdecimal` parameter whether `Decimal` or `float` objects will be represented.

  References: #9391

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing bug where `Select.from_statement()` would not accept `text()` or `TextualSelect` objects as a valid type. Additionally repaired the `columns` method to have a return type, which was missing.

  References: #9398

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing issue where `with_polymorphic()` would not record the class type correctly.

  References: #9340

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed issue in PostgreSQL `ExcludeConstraint` where literal values were being compiled as bound parameters and not direct inline values as is required for DDL.

  References: #9349

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where the PostgreSQL `ExcludeConstraint` construct would not be copyable within operations such as `Table.to_metadata()` as well as within some Alembic scenarios, if the constraint contained textual expression elements.

  References: #9401

### mysql

- [mysql] [bug] [postgresql]

  The support for pool ping listeners to receive exception events via the `DialectEvents.handle_error()` event added in 2.0.0b1 for #5648 failed to take into account dialect-specific ping routines such as that of MySQL and PostgreSQL. The dialect feature has been reworked so that all dialects participate within event handling. Additionally, a new boolean element `ExceptionContext.is_pre_ping` is added which identifies if this operation is occurring within the pre-ping operation.

  For this release, third party dialects which implement a custom `Dialect.do_ping()` method can opt in to the newly improved behavior by having their method no longer catch exceptions or check exceptions for “is_disconnect”, instead just propagating all exceptions outwards. Checking the exception for “is_disconnect” is now done by an enclosing method on the default dialect, which ensures that the event hook is invoked for all exception scenarios before testing the exception as a “disconnect” exception. If an existing `do_ping()` method continues to catch exceptions and check “is_disconnect”, it will continue to work as it did previously, but `handle_error` hooks will not have access to the exception if it isn’t propagated outwards.

  References: #5648

### sqlite

- [sqlite] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression for SQLite connections where use of the `deterministic` parameter when establishing database functions would fail for older SQLite versions, those prior to version 3.8.3. The version checking logic has been improved to accommodate for this case.

  References: #9379

### mssql

- [mssql] [bug]

  Fixed issue in the new `Uuid` datatype which prevented it from working with the pymssql driver. As pymssql seems to be maintained again, restored testing support for pymssql.

  References: #9414

- [mssql] [bug]

  Tweaked the pymssql dialect to take better advantage of RETURNING for INSERT statements in order to retrieve last inserted primary key values, in the same way as occurs for the mssql+pyodbc dialect right now.

### misc

- [bug] [ext]

  Fixed issue in automap where calling `AutomapBase.prepare()` from a specific mapped class, rather than from the `AutomapBase` directly, would not use the correct base class when automap detected new tables, instead using the given class, leading to mappers trying to configure inheritance. While one should normally call `AutomapBase.prepare()` from the base in any case, it shouldn’t misbehave that badly when called from a subclass.

  References: #9367

- [bug] [ext] [regression]

  Fixed regression caused by typing added to `sqlalchemy.ext.mutable` for #8667, where the semantics of the `.pop()` method changed such that the method was non-working. Pull request courtesy Nils Philippsen.

  References: #9380

## 2.0.4

Released: February 17, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [usecase]

  To accommodate a change in column ordering used by ORM Declarative in SQLAlchemy 2.0, a new parameter `mapped_column.sort_order` has been added that can be used to control the order of the columns defined in the table by the ORM, for common use cases such as mixins with primary key columns that should appear first in tables. The change notes at ORM Declarative Applies Column Orders Differently; Control behavior using sort_order illustrate the default change in ordering behavior (which is part of all SQLAlchemy 2.0 releases) as well as use of the `mapped_column.sort_order` to control column ordering when using mixins and multiple classes (new in 2.0.4).

  See also

  ORM Declarative Applies Column Orders Differently; Control behavior using sort_order

  References: #9297

- [orm] [usecase]

  The `Session.refresh()` method will now immediately load a relationship-bound attribute that is explicitly named within the `Session.refresh.attribute_names` collection even if it is currently linked to the “select” loader, which normally is a “lazy” loader that does not fire off during a refresh. The “lazy loader” strategy will now detect that the operation is specifically a user-initiated `Session.refresh()` operation which named this attribute explicitly, and will then call upon the “immediateload” strategy to actually emit SQL to load the attribute. This should be helpful in particular for some asyncio situations where the loading of an unloaded lazy-loaded attribute must be forced, without using the actual lazy-loading attribute pattern not supported in asyncio.

  References: #9298

- [orm] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression introduced in version 2.0.2 due to #9217 where using DML RETURNING statements, as well as `Select.from_statement()` constructs as was “fixed” in #9217, in conjunction with ORM mapped classes that used expressions such as with `column_property()`, would lead to an internal error within Core where it would attempt to match the expression by name. The fix repairs the Core issue, and also adjusts the fix in #9217 to not take effect for the DML RETURNING use case, where it adds unnecessary overhead.

  References: #9273

- [orm] [bug]

  Marked the internal `EvaluatorCompiler` module as private to the ORM, and renamed it to `_EvaluatorCompiler`. For users that may have been relying upon this, the name `EvaluatorCompiler` is still present, however this use is not supported and will be removed in a future release.

### orm declarative

- [usecase] [orm declarative]

  Added new parameter `dataclasses_callable` to both the `MappedAsDataclass` class as well as the `registry.mapped_as_dataclass()` method which allows an alternative callable to Python `dataclasses.dataclass` to be used in order to produce dataclasses. The use case here is to drop in Pydantic’s dataclass function instead. Adjustments have been made to the mixin support added for #9179 in version 2.0.1 so that the `__annotations__` collection of the mixin is rewritten to not include the `Mapped` container, in the same way as occurs with mapped classes, so that the Pydantic dataclasses constructor is not exposed to unknown types.

  See also

  Integrating with Alternate Dataclass Providers such as Pydantic

  References: #9266

### sql

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed issue where element types of a tuple value would be hardcoded to take on the types from a compared-to tuple, when the comparison were using the `ColumnOperators.in_()` operator. This was inconsistent with the usual way that types are determined for a binary expression, which is that the actual element type on the right side is considered first before applying the left-hand-side type.

  References: #9313

- [sql]

  Added public property `Table.autoincrement_column` that returns the column identified as autoincrementing in the column.

  References: #9277

### typing

- [typing] [usecase]

  Improved the typing support for the Hybrid Attributes extension, updated all documentation to use ORM Annotated Declarative mappings, and added a new modifier called `hybrid_property.inplace`. This modifier provides a way to alter the state of a `hybrid_property` in place, which is essentially what very early versions of hybrids did, before SQLAlchemy version 1.2.0 #3912 changed this to remove in-place mutation. This in-place mutation is now restored on an opt-in basis to allow a single hybrid to have multiple methods set up, without the need to name all the methods the same and without the need to carefully “chain” differently-named methods in order to maintain the composition. Typing tools such as Mypy and Pyright do not allow same-named methods on a class, so with this change a succinct method of setting up hybrids with typing support is restored.

  See also

  Using inplace to create pep-484 compliant hybrid properties

  References: #9321

### oracle

- [oracle] [bug]

  Adjusted the behavior of the `thick_mode` parameter for the python-oracledb dialect to correctly accept `False` as a value. Previously, only `None` would indicate that thick mode should be disabled.

  References: #9295

## 2.0.3

Released: February 9, 2023

### sql

- [sql] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed critical regression in SQL expression formulation in the 2.0 series due to #7744 which improved support for SQL expressions that contained many elements against the same operator repeatedly; parenthesis grouping would be lost with expression elements beyond the first two elements.

  References: #9271

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Remove `typing.Self` workaround, now using PEP 673 for most methods that return `Self`. As a consequence of this change `mypy>=1.0.0` is now required to type check SQLAlchemy code. Pull request courtesy Yurii Karabas.

  References: #9254

## 2.0.2

Released: February 6, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [usecase]

  Added new event hook `MapperEvents.after_mapper_constructed()`, which supplies an event hook to take place right as the `Mapper` object has been fully constructed, but before the `registry.configure()` call has been called. This allows code that can create additional mappings and table structures based on the initial configuration of a `Mapper`, which also integrates within Declarative configuration. Previously, when using Declarative, where the `Mapper` object is created within the class creation process, there was no documented means of running code at this point. The change is to immediately benefit custom mapping schemes such as that of the Versioning with a History Table example, which generate additional mappers and tables in response to the creation of mapped classes.

  References: #9220

- [orm] [usecase]

  The infrequently used `Mapper.iterate_properties` attribute and `Mapper.get_property()` method, which are primarily used internally, no longer implicitly invoke the `registry.configure()` process. Public access to these methods is extremely rare and the only benefit to having `registry.configure()` would have been allowing “backref” properties be present in these collections. In order to support the new `MapperEvents.after_mapper_constructed()` event, iteration and access to the internal `MapperProperty` objects is now possible without triggering an implicit configure of the mapper itself.

  The more-public facing route to iteration of all mapper attributes, the `Mapper.attrs` collection and similar, will still implicitly invoke the `registry.configure()` step thus making backref attributes available.

  In all cases, the `registry.configure()` is always available to be called directly.

  References: #9220

- [orm] [bug] [ression]

  Fixed obscure ORM inheritance issue caused by #8705 where some scenarios of inheriting mappers that indicated groups of columns from the local table and the inheriting table together under a `column_property()` would nonetheless warn that properties of the same name were being combined implicitly.

  References: #9232

- [orm] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression where using the `Mapper.version_id_col` feature with a regular Python-side incrementing column would fail to work for SQLite and other databases that don’t support “rowcount” with “RETURNING”, as “RETURNING” would be assumed for such columns even though that’s not what actually takes place.

  References: #9228

- [orm] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression when using `Select.from_statement()` in an ORM context, where matching of columns to SQL labels based on name alone was disabled for ORM-statements that weren’t fully textual. This would prevent arbitrary SQL expressions with column-name labels from matching up to the entity to be loaded, which previously would work within the 1.4 and previous series, so the previous behavior has been restored.

  References: #9217

### orm declarative

- [bug] [orm declarative]

  Fixed regression caused by the fix for #9171, which itself was fixing a regression, involving the mechanics of `__init__()` on classes that extend from `DeclarativeBase`. The change made it such that `__init__()` was applied to the user-defined base if there were no `__init__()` method directly on the class. This has been adjusted so that `__init__()` is applied only if no other class in the hierarchy of the user-defined base has an `__init__()` method. This again allows user-defined base classes based on `DeclarativeBase` to include mixins that themselves include a custom `__init__()` method.

  References: #9249

- [bug] [orm declarative]

  Fixed issue in ORM Declarative Dataclass mappings related to newly added support for mixins added in 2.0.1 via #9179, where a combination of using mixins plus ORM inheritance would mis-classify fields in some cases leading to field-level dataclass arguments such as `init=False` being lost.

  References: #9226

- [bug] [orm declarative]

  Repaired ORM Declarative mappings to allow for the `Mapper.primary_key` parameter to be specified within `__mapper_args__` when using `mapped_column()`. Despite this usage being directly in the 2.0 documentation, the `Mapper` was not accepting the `mapped_column()` construct in this context. This feature was already working for the `Mapper.version_id_col` and `Mapper.polymorphic_on` parameters.

  As part of this change, the `__mapper_args__` attribute may be specified without using `declared_attr()` on a non-mapped mixin class, including a `"primary_key"` entry that refers to `Column` or `mapped_column()` objects locally present on the mixin; Declarative will also translate these columns into the correct ones for a particular mapped class. This again was working already for the `Mapper.version_id_col` and `Mapper.polymorphic_on` parameters. Additionally, elements within `"primary_key"` may be indicated as string names of existing mapped properties.

  References: #9240

- [bug] [orm declarative]

  An explicit error is raised if a mapping attempts to mix the use of `MappedAsDataclass` with `registry.mapped_as_dataclass()` within the same class hierarchy, as this produces issues with the dataclass function being applied at the wrong time to the mapped class, leading to errors during the mapping process.

  References: #9211

### examples

- [examples] [bug]

  Reworked the Versioning with a History Table to work with version 2.0, while at the same time improving the overall working of this example to use newer APIs, including a newly added hook `MapperEvents.after_mapper_constructed()`.

  References: #9220

### sql

- [sql] [usecase]

  Added a full suite of new SQL bitwise operators, for performing database-side bitwise expressions on appropriate data values such as integers, bit-strings, and similar. Pull request courtesy Yegor Statkevich.

  See also

  Bitwise Operators

  References: #8780

### asyncio

- [asyncio] [bug]

  Repaired a regression caused by the fix for #8419 which caused asyncpg connections to be reset (i.e. transaction `rollback()` called) and returned to the pool normally in the case that the connection were not explicitly returned to the connection pool and was instead being intercepted by Python garbage collection, which would fail if the garbage collection operation were being called outside of the asyncio event loop, leading to a large amount of stack trace activity dumped into logging and standard output.

  The correct behavior is restored, which is that all asyncio connections that are garbage collected due to not being explicitly returned to the connection pool are detached from the pool and discarded, along with a warning, rather than being returned the pool, as they cannot be reliably reset. In the case of asyncpg connections, the asyncpg-specific `terminate()` method will be used to end the connection more gracefully within this process as opposed to just dropping it.

  This change includes a small behavioral change that is hoped to be useful for debugging asyncio applications, where the warning that’s emitted in the case of asyncio connections being unexpectedly garbage collected has been made slightly more aggressive by moving it outside of a `try/except` block and into a `finally:` block, where it will emit unconditionally regardless of whether the detach/termination operation succeeded or not. It will also have the effect that applications or test suites which promote Python warnings to exceptions will see this as a full exception raise, whereas previously it was not possible for this warning to actually propagate as an exception. Applications and test suites which need to tolerate this warning in the interim should adjust the Python warnings filter to allow these warnings to not raise.

  The behavior for traditional sync connections remains unchanged, that garbage collected connections continue to be returned to the pool normally without emitting a warning. This will likely be changed in a future major release to at least emit a similar warning as is emitted for asyncio drivers, as it is a usage error for pooled connections to be intercepted by garbage collection without being properly returned to the pool.

  References: #9237

### mysql

- [mysql] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression caused by issue #9058 which adjusted the MySQL dialect’s `has_table()` to again use “DESCRIBE”, where the specific error code raised by MySQL version 8 when using a non-existent schema name was unexpected and failed to be interpreted as a boolean result.

  References: #9251

- [mysql] [bug]

  Added support for MySQL 8’s new `AS <name> ON DUPLICATE KEY` syntax when using `Insert.on_duplicate_key_update()`, which is required for newer versions of MySQL 8 as the previous syntax using `VALUES()` now emits a deprecation warning with those versions. Server version detection is employed to determine if traditional MariaDB / MySQL < 8 `VALUES()` syntax should be used, vs. the newer MySQL 8 required syntax. Pull request courtesy Caspar Wylie.

  References: #8626

### sqlite

- [sqlite] [bug]

  Fixed the SQLite dialect’s `has_table()` function to correctly report False for queries that include a non-None schema name for a schema that doesn’t exist; previously, a database error was raised.

  References: #9251

## 2.0.1

Released: February 1, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression where ORM models that used joined table inheritance with a composite foreign key would encounter an internal error in the mapper internals.

  References: #9164

- [orm] [bug]

  Improved the error reporting when linking strategy options from a base class to another attribute that’s off a subclass, where `of_type()` should be used. Previously, when `Load.options()` is used, the message would lack informative detail that `of_type()` should be used, which was not the case when linking the options directly. The informative detail now emits even if `Load.options()` is used.

  References: #9182

### orm declarative

- [bug] [orm declarative]

  Added support for PEP 484 `NewType` to be used in the `registry.type_annotation_map` as well as within `Mapped` constructs. These types will behave in the same way as custom subclasses of types right now; they must appear explicitly within the `registry.type_annotation_map` to be mapped.

  References: #9175

- [bug] [orm declarative]

  When using the `MappedAsDataclass` superclass, all classes within the hierarchy that are subclasses of this class will now be run through the `@dataclasses.dataclass` function whether or not they are actually mapped, so that non-ORM fields declared on non-mapped classes within the hierarchy will be used when mapped subclasses are turned into dataclasses. This behavior applies both to intermediary classes mapped with `__abstract__ = True` as well as to the user-defined declarative base itself, assuming `MappedAsDataclass` is present as a superclass for these classes.

  This allows non-mapped attributes such as `InitVar` declarations on superclasses to be used, without the need to run the `@dataclasses.dataclass` decorator explicitly on each non-mapped class. The new behavior is considered as correct as this is what the PEP 681 implementation expects when using a superclass to indicate dataclass behavior.

  References: #9179

- [bug] [orm declarative]

  Added support for PEP 586 `Literal[]` to be used in the `registry.type_annotation_map` as well as within `Mapped` constructs. To use custom types such as these, they must appear explicitly within the `registry.type_annotation_map` to be mapped. Pull request courtesy Frederik Aalund.

  As part of this change, the support for `Enum` in the `registry.type_annotation_map` has been expanded to include support for `Literal[]` types consisting of string values to be used, in addition to `enum.Enum` datatypes. If a `Literal[]` datatype is used within `Mapped[]` that is not linked in `registry.type_annotation_map` to a specific datatype, a `Enum` will be used by default.

  See also

  Using Python Enum or pep-586 Literal types in the type map

  References: #9187

- [bug] [orm declarative]

  Fixed issue involving the use of `Enum` within the `registry.type_annotation_map` where the `Enum.native_enum` parameter would not be correctly copied to the mapped column datatype, if it were overridden as stated in the documentation to set this parameter to False.

  References: #9200

- [bug] [orm declarative] [regression]

  Fixed regression in `DeclarativeBase` class where the registry’s default constructor would not be applied to the base itself, which is different from how the previous `declarative_base()` construct works. This would prevent a mapped class with its own `__init__()` method from calling `super().__init__()` in order to access the registry’s default constructor and automatically populate attributes, instead hitting `object.__init__()` which would raise a `TypeError` on any arguments.

  References: #9171

- [bug] [orm declarative]

  Improved the ruleset used to interpret PEP 593 `Annotated` types when used with Annotated Declarative mapping, the inner type will be checked for “Optional” in all cases which will be added to the criteria by which the column is set as “nullable” or not; if the type within the `Annotated` container is optional (or unioned with `None`), the column will be considered nullable if there are no explicit `mapped_column.nullable` parameters overriding it.

  References: #9177

### sql

- [sql] [bug]

  Corrected the fix for #7664, released in version 2.0.0, to also include `DropSchema` which was inadvertently missed in this fix, allowing stringification without a dialect. The fixes for both constructs is backported to the 1.4 series as of 1.4.47.

  References: #7664

- [sql] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression related to the implementation for the new “insertmanyvalues” feature where an internal `TypeError` would occur in arrangements where a `insert()` would be referenced inside of another `insert()` via a CTE; made additional repairs for this use case for positional dialects such as asyncpg when using “insertmanyvalues”.

  References: #9173

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Opened up typing on `Select.with_for_update.of` to also accept table and mapped class arguments, as seems to be available for the MySQL dialect.

  References: #9174

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing for limit/offset methods including `Select.limit()`, `Select.offset()`, `Query.limit()`, `Query.offset()` to allow `None`, which is the documented API to “cancel” the current limit/offset.

  References: #9183

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing issue where `mapped_column()` objects typed as `Mapped` wouldn’t be accepted in schema constraints such as `ForeignKey`, `UniqueConstraint` or `Index`.

  References: #9170

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing for `ColumnElement.cast()` to accept both `Type[TypeEngine[T]]` and `TypeEngine[T]`; previously only `TypeEngine[T]` was accepted. Pull request courtesy Yurii Karabas.

  References: #9156

## 2.0.0

Released: January 26, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Improved the notification of warnings that are emitted within the configure mappers or flush process, which are often invoked as part of a different operation, to add additional context to the message that indicates one of these operations as the source of the warning within operations that may not be obviously related.

  References: #7305

### orm extensions

- [feature] [orm extensions]

  Added new option to horizontal sharding API `set_shard_id` which sets the effective shard identifier to query against, for both the primary query as well as for all secondary loaders including relationship eager loaders as well as relationship and column lazy loaders.

  References: #7226

- [usecase] [orm extensions]

  Added new feature to `AutomapBase` for autoload of classes across multiple schemas which may have overlapping names, by providing a `AutomapBase.prepare.modulename_for_table` parameter which allows customization of the `__module__` attribute of newly generated classes, as well as a new collection `AutomapBase.by_module`, which stores a dot-separated namespace of module names linked to classes based on the `__module__` attribute.

  Additionally, the `AutomapBase.prepare()` method may now be invoked any number of times, with or without reflection enabled; only newly added tables that were not previously mapped will be processed on each call. Previously, the `MetaData.reflect()` method would need to be called explicitly each time.

  See also

  Generating Mappings from Multiple Schemas - illustrates use of both techniques at once.

  References: #5145

### sql

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed stringify for a the `CreateSchema` DDL construct, which would fail with an `AttributeError` when stringified without a dialect. Update: Note this fix failed to accommodate for `DropSchema`; a followup fix in version 2.0.1 repairs this case. The fix for both elements is backported to 1.4.47.

  References: #7664

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Added typing for the built-in generic functions that are available from the `func` namespace, which accept a particular set of arguments and return a particular type, such as for `count`, `current_timestamp`, etc.

  References: #9129

- [typing] [bug]

  Corrected the type passed for “lambda statements” so that a plain lambda is accepted by mypy, pyright, others without any errors about argument types. Additionally implemented typing for more of the public API for lambda statements and ensured `StatementLambdaElement` is part of the `Executable` hierarchy so it’s typed as accepted by `Connection.execute()`.

  References: #9120

- [typing] [bug]

  The `ColumnOperators.in_()` and `ColumnOperators.not_in()` methods are typed to include `Iterable[Any]` rather than `Sequence[Any]` for more flexibility in argument type.

  References: #9122

- [typing] [bug]

  The `or_()` and `and_()` from a typing perspective require the first argument to be present, however these functions still accept zero arguments which will emit a deprecation warning at runtime. Typing is also added to support sending the fixed literal `False` for `or_()` and `True` for `and_()` as the first argument only, however the documentation now indicates sending the `false()` and `true()` constructs in these cases as a more explicit approach.

  References: #9123

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing issue where iterating over a `Query` object was not correctly typed.

  References: #9125

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing issue where the object type when using `Result` as a context manager were not preserved, indicating `Result` in all cases rather than the specific `Result` sub-type. Pull request courtesy Martin Baláž.

  References: #9136

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed issue where using the `relationship.remote_side` and similar parameters, passing an annotated declarative object typed as `Mapped`, would not be accepted by the type checker.

  References: #9150

- [typing] [bug]

  Added typing to legacy operators such as `isnot()`, `notin_()`, etc. which previously were referencing the newer operators but were not themselves typed.

  References: #9148

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Added support to the asyncpg dialect to return the `cursor.rowcount` value for SELECT statements when available. While this is not a typical use for `cursor.rowcount`, the other PostgreSQL dialects generally provide this value. Pull request courtesy Michael Gorven.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.47

  References: #9048

### mysql

- [mysql] [usecase]

  Added support to MySQL index reflection to correctly reflect the `mysql_length` dictionary, which previously was being ignored.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.47

  References: #9047

### mssql

- [mssql] [bug] [regression]

  The newly added comment reflection and rendering capability of the MSSQL dialect, added in #7844, will now be disabled by default if it cannot be determined that an unsupported backend such as Azure Synapse may be in use; this backend does not support table and column comments and does not support the SQL Server routines in use to generate them as well as to reflect them. A new parameter `supports_comments` is added to the dialect which defaults to `None`, indicating that comment support should be auto-detected. When set to `True` or `False`, the comment support is either enabled or disabled unconditionally.

  See also

  DDL Comment Support

  References: #9142

## 2.0.0rc3

Released: January 18, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [feature]

  Added a new parameter to `Mapper` called `Mapper.polymorphic_abstract`. The purpose of this directive is so that the ORM will not consider the class to be instantiated or loaded directly, only subclasses. The actual effect is that the `Mapper` will prevent direct instantiation of instances of the class and will expect that the class does not have a distinct polymorphic identity configured.

  In practice, the class that is mapped with `Mapper.polymorphic_abstract` can be used as the target of a `relationship()` as well as be used in queries; subclasses must of course include polymorphic identities in their mappings.

  The new parameter is automatically applied to classes that subclass the `AbstractConcreteBase` class, as this class is not intended to be instantiated.

  See also

  Building Deeper Hierarchies with polymorphic_abstract

  References: #9060

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where using a pep-593 `Annotated` type in the `registry.type_annotation_map` which itself contained a generic plain container or `collections.abc` type (e.g. `list`, `dict`, `collections.abc.Sequence`, etc. ) as the target type would produce an internal error when the ORM were trying to interpret the `Annotated` instance.

  References: #9099

- [orm] [bug]

  Added an error message when a `relationship()` is mapped against an abstract container type, such as `Mapped[Sequence[B]]`, without providing the `relationship.container_class` parameter which is necessary when the type is abstract. Previously the abstract container would attempt to be instantiated at a later step and fail.

  References: #9100

### sql

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed bug / regression where using `bindparam()` with the same name as a column in the `Update.values()` method of `Update`, as well as the `Insert.values()` method of `Insert` in 2.0 only, would in some cases silently fail to honor the SQL expression in which the parameter were presented, replacing the expression with a new parameter of the same name and discarding any other elements of the SQL expression, such as SQL functions, etc. The specific case would be statements that were constructed against ORM entities rather than plain `Table` instances, but would occur if the statement were invoked with a `Session` or a `Connection`.

  `Update` part of the issue was present in both 2.0 and 1.4 and is backported to 1.4.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.47

  References: #9075

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixes to the annotations within the `sqlalchemy.ext.hybrid` extension for more effective typing of user-defined methods. The typing now uses PEP 612 features, now supported by recent versions of Mypy, to maintain argument signatures for `hybrid_method`. Return values for hybrid methods are accepted as SQL expressions in contexts such as `Select.where()` while still supporting SQL methods.

  References: #9096

### mypy

- [mypy] [bug]

  Adjustments made to the mypy plugin to accommodate for some potential changes being made for issue #236 sqlalchemy2-stubs when using SQLAlchemy 1.4. These changes are being kept in sync within SQLAlchemy 2.0. The changes are also backwards compatible with older versions of sqlalchemy2-stubs.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.47

- [mypy] [bug]

  Fixed crash in mypy plugin which could occur on both 1.4 and 2.0 versions if a decorator for the `mapped()` decorator were used that was referenced in an expression with more than two components (e.g. `@Backend.mapper_registry.mapped`). This scenario is now ignored; when using the plugin, the decorator expression needs to be two components (i.e. `@reg.mapped`).

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.47

  References: #9102

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed regression where psycopg3 changed an API call as of version 3.1.8 to expect a specific object type that was previously not enforced, breaking connectivity for the psycopg3 dialect.

  References: #9106

### oracle

- [oracle] [usecase]

  Added support for the Oracle SQL type `TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE`, using a newly added Oracle-specific `TIMESTAMP` datatype.

  References: #9086

## 2.0.0rc2

Released: January 9, 2023

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where an overly restrictive ORM mapping rule were added in 2.0 which prevented mappings against `TableClause` objects, such as those used in the view recipe on the wiki.

  References: #9071

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  The Data Class Transforms argument `field_descriptors` was renamed to `field_specifiers` in the accepted version of PEP 681.

  References: #9067

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [json]

  Implemented missing `JSONB` operations:

  - `@@` using `Comparator.path_match()`

  - `@?` using `Comparator.path_exists()`

  - `#-` using `Comparator.delete_path()`

  Pull request courtesy of Guilherme Martins Crocetti.

  References: #7147

### mysql

- [mysql] [bug]

  Restored the behavior of `Inspector.has_table()` to report on temporary tables for MySQL / MariaDB. This is currently the behavior for all other included dialects, but was removed for MySQL in 1.4 due to no longer using the DESCRIBE command; there was no documented support for temp tables being reported by the `Inspector.has_table()` method in this version or on any previous version, so the previous behavior was undefined.

  As SQLAlchemy 2.0 has added formal support for temp table status via `Inspector.has_table()`, the MySQL /MariaDB dialect has been reverted to use the “DESCRIBE” statement as it did in the SQLAlchemy 1.3 series and previously, and test support is added to include MySQL / MariaDB for this behavior. The previous issues with ROLLBACK being emitted which 1.4 sought to improve upon don’t apply in SQLAlchemy 2.0 due to simplifications in how `Connection` handles transactions.

  DESCRIBE is necessary as MariaDB in particular has no consistently available public information schema of any kind in order to report on temp tables other than DESCRIBE/SHOW COLUMNS, which rely on throwing an error in order to report no results.

  References: #9058

### oracle

- [oracle] [bug]

  Supported use case for foreign key constraints where the local column is marked as “invisible”. The errors normally generated when a `ForeignKeyConstraint` is created that check for the target column are disabled when reflecting, and the constraint is skipped with a warning in the same way which already occurs for an `Index` with a similar issue.

  References: #9059

## 2.0.0rc1

Released: December 28, 2022

### general

- [general] [bug]

  Fixed regression where the base compat module was calling upon `platform.architecture()` in order to detect some system properties, which results in an over-broad system call against the system-level `file` call that is unavailable under some circumstances, including within some secure environment configurations.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.46

  References: #8995

### orm

- [orm] [feature]

  Added a new default value for the `Mapper.eager_defaults` parameter “auto”, which will automatically fetch table default values during a unit of work flush, if the dialect supports RETURNING for the INSERT being run, as well as insertmanyvalues available. Eager fetches for server-side UPDATE defaults, which are very uncommon, continue to only take place if `Mapper.eager_defaults` is set to `True`, as there is no batch-RETURNING form for UPDATE statements.

  References: #8889

- [orm] [usecase]

  Adjustments to the `Session` in terms of extensibility, as well as updates to the `ShardedSession` extension:

  - `Session.get()` now accepts `Session.get.bind_arguments`, which in particular may be useful when using the horizontal sharding extension.

  - `Session.get_bind()` accepts arbitrary kw arguments, which assists in developing code that uses a `Session` class which overrides this method with additional arguments.

  - Added a new ORM execution option `identity_token` which may be used to directly affect the “identity token” that will be associated with newly loaded ORM objects. This token is how sharding approaches (namely the `ShardedSession`, but can be used in other cases as well) separate object identities across different “shards”.

    See also

    Identity Token

  - The `SessionEvents.do_orm_execute()` event hook may now be used to affect all ORM-related options, including `autoflush`, `populate_existing`, and `yield_per`; these options are re-consumed subsequent to event hooks being invoked before they are acted upon. Previously, options like `autoflush` would have been already evaluated at this point. The new `identity_token` option is also supported in this mode and is now used by the horizontal sharding extension.

  - The `ShardedSession` class replaces the `ShardedSession.id_chooser` hook with a new hook `ShardedSession.identity_chooser`, which no longer relies upon the legacy `Query` object. `ShardedSession.id_chooser` is still accepted in place of `ShardedSession.identity_chooser` with a deprecation warning.

  References: #7837

- [orm] [usecase]

  The behavior of “joining an external transaction into a Session” has been revised and improved, allowing explicit control over how the `Session` will accommodate an incoming `Connection` that already has a transaction and possibly a savepoint already established. The new parameter `Session.join_transaction_mode` includes a series of option values which can accommodate the existing transaction in several ways, most importantly allowing a `Session` to operate in a fully transactional style using savepoints exclusively, while leaving the externally initiated transaction non-committed and active under all circumstances, allowing test suites to rollback all changes that take place within tests.

  Additionally, revised the `Session.close()` method to fully close out savepoints that may still be present, which also allows the “external transaction” recipe to proceed without warnings if the `Session` did not explicitly end its own SAVEPOINT transactions.

  See also

  New transaction join modes for Session

  References: #9015

- [orm] [usecase]

  Removed the requirement that the `__allow_unmapped__` attribute be used on Declarative Dataclass Mapped class when non-`Mapped[]` annotations are detected; previously, an error message that was intended to support legacy ORM typed mappings would be raised, which additionally did not mention correct patterns to use with Dataclasses specifically. This error message is now no longer raised if `registry.mapped_as_dataclass()` or `MappedAsDataclass` is used.

  See also

  Using Non-Mapped Dataclass Fields

  References: #8973

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue in the internal SQL traversal for DML statements like `Update` and `Delete` which would cause among other potential issues, a specific issue using lambda statements with the ORM update/delete feature.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.46

  References: #9033

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed bug where `Session.merge()` would fail to preserve the current loaded contents of relationship attributes that were indicated with the `relationship.viewonly` parameter, thus defeating strategies that use `Session.merge()` to pull fully loaded objects from caches and other similar techniques. In a related change, fixed issue where an object that contains a loaded relationship that was nonetheless configured as `lazy='raise'` on the mapping would fail when passed to `Session.merge()`; checks for “raise” are now suspended within the merge process assuming the `Session.merge.load` parameter remains at its default of `True`.

  Overall, this is a behavioral adjustment to a change introduced in the 1.4 series as of #4994, which took “merge” out of the set of cascades applied by default to “viewonly” relationships. As “viewonly” relationships aren’t persisted under any circumstances, allowing their contents to transfer during “merge” does not impact the persistence behavior of the target object. This allows `Session.merge()` to correctly suit one of its use cases, that of adding objects to a `Session` that were loaded elsewhere, often for the purposes of restoring from a cache.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.45

  References: #8862

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issues in `with_expression()` where expressions that were composed of columns that were referenced from the enclosing SELECT would not render correct SQL in some contexts, in the case where the expression had a label name that matched the attribute which used `query_expression()`, even when `query_expression()` had no default expression. For the moment, if the `query_expression()` does have a default expression, that label name is still used for that default, and an additional label with the same name will continue to be ignored. Overall, this case is pretty thorny so further adjustments might be warranted.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.45

  References: #8881

- [orm] [bug]

  A warning is emitted if a backref name used in `relationship()` names an attribute on the target class which already has a method or attribute assigned to that name, as the backref declaration will replace that attribute.

  References: #4629

- [orm] [bug]

  A series of changes and improvements regarding `Session.refresh()`. The overall change is that primary key attributes for an object are now included in a refresh operation unconditionally when relationship-bound attributes are to be refreshed, even if not expired and even if not specified in the refresh.

  - Improved `Session.refresh()` so that if autoflush is enabled (as is the default for `Session`), the autoflush takes place at an earlier part of the refresh process so that pending primary key changes are applied without errors being raised. Previously, this autoflush took place too late in the process and the SELECT statement would not use the correct key to locate the row and an `InvalidRequestError` would be raised.

  - When the above condition is present, that is, unflushed primary key changes are present on the object, but autoflush is not enabled, the refresh() method now explicitly disallows the operation to proceed, and an informative `InvalidRequestError` is raised asking that the pending primary key changes be flushed first. Previously, this use case was simply broken and `InvalidRequestError` would be raised anyway. This restriction is so that it’s safe for the primary key attributes to be refreshed, as is necessary for the case of being able to refresh the object with relationship-bound secondary eagerloaders also being emitted. This rule applies in all cases to keep API behavior consistent regardless of whether or not the PK cols are actually needed in the refresh, as it is unusual to be refreshing some attributes on an object while keeping other attributes “pending” in any case.

  - The `Session.refresh()` method has been enhanced such that attributes which are `relationship()`-bound and linked to an eager loader, either at mapping time or via last-used loader options, will be refreshed in all cases even when a list of attributes is passed that does not include any columns on the parent row. This builds upon the feature first implemented for non-column attributes as part of #1763 fixed in 1.4 allowing eagerly-loaded relationship-bound attributes to participate in the `Session.refresh()` operation. If the refresh operation does not indicate any columns on the parent row to be refreshed, the primary key columns will nonetheless be included in the refresh operation, which allows the load to proceed into the secondary relationship loaders indicated as it does normally. Previously an `InvalidRequestError` error would be raised for this condition (#8703)

  - Fixed issue where an unnecessary additional SELECT would be emitted in the case where `Session.refresh()` were called with a combination of expired attributes, as well as an eager loader such as `selectinload()` that emits a “secondary” query, if the primary key attributes were also in an expired state. As the primary key attributes are now included in the refresh automatically, there is no additional load for these attributes when a relationship loader goes to select for them (#8997)

  - Fixed regression caused by #8126 released in 2.0.0b1 where the `Session.refresh()` method would fail with an `AttributeError`, if passed both an expired column name as well as the name of a relationship-bound attribute that was linked to a “secondary” eagerloader such as the `selectinload()` eager loader (#8996)

  References: #8703, #8996, #8997

- [orm] [bug]

  Improved a fix first made in version 1.4 for #8456 which scaled back the usage of internal “polymorphic adapters”, that are used to render ORM queries when the `Mapper.with_polymorphic` parameter is used. These adapters, which are very complex and error prone, are now used only in those cases where an explicit user-supplied subquery is used for `Mapper.with_polymorphic`, which includes only the use case of concrete inheritance mappings that use the `polymorphic_union()` helper, as well as the legacy use case of using an aliased subquery for joined inheritance mappings, which is not needed in modern use.

  For the most common case of joined inheritance mappings that use the built-in polymorphic loading scheme, which includes those which make use of the `Mapper.polymorphic_load` parameter set to `inline`, polymorphic adapters are now no longer used. This has both a positive performance impact on the construction of queries as well as a substantial simplification of the internal query rendering process.

  The specific issue targeted was to allow a `column_property()` to refer to joined-inheritance classes within a scalar subquery, which now works as intuitively as is feasible.

  References: #8168

### engine

- [engine] [bug]

  Fixed a long-standing race condition in the connection pool which could occur under eventlet/gevent monkeypatching schemes in conjunction with the use of eventlet/gevent `Timeout` conditions, where a connection pool checkout that’s interrupted due to the timeout would fail to clean up the failed state, causing the underlying connection record and sometimes the database connection itself to “leak”, leaving the pool in an invalid state with unreachable entries. This issue was first identified and fixed in SQLAlchemy 1.2 for #4225, however the failure modes detected in that fix failed to accommodate for `BaseException`, rather than `Exception`, which prevented eventlet/gevent `Timeout` from being caught. In addition, a block within initial pool connect has also been identified and hardened with a `BaseException` -> “clean failed connect” block to accommodate for the same condition in this location. Big thanks to Github user @niklaus for their tenacious efforts in identifying and describing this intricate issue.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.46

  References: #8974

- [engine] [bug]

  Fixed issue where `Result.freeze()` method would not work for textual SQL using either `text()` or `Connection.exec_driver_sql()`.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.45

  References: #8963

### sql

- [sql] [usecase]

  An informative re-raise is now thrown in the case where any “literal bindparam” render operation fails, indicating the value itself and the datatype in use, to assist in debugging when literal params are being rendered in a statement.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.45

  References: #8800

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed issue in lambda SQL feature where the calculated type of a literal value would not take into account the type coercion rules of the “compared to type”, leading to a lack of typing information for SQL expressions, such as comparisons to `JSON` elements and similar.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.46

  References: #9029

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed a series of issues regarding the position and sometimes the identity of rendered bound parameters, such as those used for SQLite, asyncpg, MySQL, Oracle and others. Some compiled forms would not maintain the order of parameters correctly, such as the PostgreSQL `regexp_replace()` function, the “nesting” feature of the `CTE` construct first introduced in #4123, and selectable tables formed by using the `FunctionElement.column_valued()` method with Oracle.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.45

  References: #8827

- [sql] [bug]

  Added test support to ensure that all compiler `visit_xyz()` methods across all `Compiler` implementations in SQLAlchemy accept a `**kw` parameter, so that all compilers accept additional keyword arguments under all circumstances.

  References: #8988

- [sql] [bug]

  The `SQLCompiler.construct_params()` method, as well as the `SQLCompiler.params` accessor, will now return the exact parameters that correspond to a compiled statement that used the `render_postcompile` parameter to compile. Previously, the method returned a parameter structure that by itself didn’t correspond to either the original parameters or the expanded ones.

  Passing a new dictionary of parameters to `SQLCompiler.construct_params()` for a `SQLCompiler` that was constructed with `render_postcompile` is now disallowed; instead, to make a new SQL string and parameter set for an alternate set of parameters, a new method `SQLCompiler.construct_expanded_state()` is added which will produce a new expanded form for the given parameter set, using the `ExpandedState` container which includes a new SQL statement and new parameter dictionary, as well as a positional parameter tuple.

  References: #6114

- [sql] [bug]

  To accommodate for third party dialects with different character escaping needs regarding bound parameters, the system by which SQLAlchemy “escapes” (i.e., replaces with another character in its place) special characters in bound parameter names has been made extensible for third party dialects, using the `SQLCompiler.bindname_escape_chars` dictionary which can be overridden at the class declaration level on any `SQLCompiler` subclass. As part of this change, also added the dot `"."` as a default “escaped” character.

  References: #8994

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  pep-484 typing has been completed for the `sqlalchemy.ext.horizontal_shard` extension as well as the `sqlalchemy.orm.events` module. Thanks to Gleb Kisenkov for their efforts.

  References: #6810, #9025

### asyncio

- [asyncio] [bug]

  Removed non-functional `merge()` method from `AsyncResult`. This method has never worked and was included with `AsyncResult` in error.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.45

  References: #8952

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed bug where the PostgreSQL `Insert.on_conflict_do_update.constraint` parameter would accept an `Index` object, however would not expand this index out into its individual index expressions, instead rendering its name in an ON CONFLICT ON CONSTRAINT clause, which is not accepted by PostgreSQL; the “constraint name” form only accepts unique or exclude constraint names. The parameter continues to accept the index but now expands it out into its component expressions for the render.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.46

  References: #9023

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Made an adjustment to how the PostgreSQL dialect considers column types when it reflects columns from a table, to accommodate for alternative backends which may return NULL from the PG `format_type()` function.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.45

  References: #8748

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Added support for explicit use of PG full text functions with asyncpg and psycopg (SQLAlchemy 2.0 only), with regards to the `REGCONFIG` type cast for the first argument, which previously would be incorrectly cast to a VARCHAR, causing failures on these dialects that rely upon explicit type casts. This includes support for `to_tsvector`, `to_tsquery`, `plainto_tsquery`, `phraseto_tsquery`, `websearch_to_tsquery`, `ts_headline`, each of which will determine based on number of arguments passed if the first string argument should be interpreted as a PostgreSQL “REGCONFIG” value; if so, the argument is typed using a newly added type object `REGCONFIG` which is then explicitly cast in the SQL expression.

  References: #8977

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Fixed regression where newly revised PostgreSQL range types such as `INT4RANGE` could not be set up as the impl of a `TypeDecorator` custom type, instead raising a `TypeError`.

  References: #9020

- [postgresql] [bug]

  The `Range.__eq___()` will now return `NotImplemented` when comparing with an instance of a different class, instead of raising an `AttributeError` exception.

  References: #8984

### sqlite

- [sqlite] [usecase]

  Added support for the SQLite backend to reflect the “DEFERRABLE” and “INITIALLY” keywords which may be present on a foreign key construct. Pull request courtesy Michael Gorven.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.45

  References: #8903

- [sqlite] [usecase]

  Added support for reflection of expression-oriented WHERE criteria included in indexes on the SQLite dialect, in a manner similar to that of the PostgreSQL dialect. Pull request courtesy Tobias Pfeiffer.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.45

  References: #8804

### oracle

- [oracle] [bug]

  Fixed issue in Oracle compiler where the syntax for `FunctionElement.column_valued()` was incorrect, rendering the name `COLUMN_VALUE` without qualifying the source table correctly.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.45

  References: #8945

### tests

- [tests] [bug]

  Fixed issue in tox.ini file where changes in the tox 4.0 series to the format of “passenv” caused tox to not function correctly, in particular raising an error as of tox 4.0.6.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.46

- [tests] [bug]

  Added new exclusion rule for third party dialects called `unusual_column_name_characters`, which can be “closed” for third party dialects that don’t support column names with unusual characters such as dots, slashes, or percent signs in them, even if the name is properly quoted.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.46

  References: #9002

## 2.0.0b4

Released: December 5, 2022

### orm

- [orm] [feature]

  Added a new parameter `mapped_column.use_existing_column` to accommodate the use case of a single-table inheritance mapping that uses the pattern of more than one subclass indicating the same column to take place on the superclass. This pattern was previously possible by using `declared_attr()` in conjunction with locating the existing column in the `.__table__` of the superclass, however is now updated to work with `mapped_column()` as well as with pep-484 typing, in a simple and succinct way.

  See also

  Resolving Column Conflicts with use_existing_column

  References: #8822

- [orm] [usecase]

  Added support custom user-defined types which extend the Python `enum.Enum` base class to be resolved automatically to SQLAlchemy `Enum` SQL types, when using the Annotated Declarative Table feature. The feature is made possible through new lookup features added to the ORM type map feature, and includes support for changing the arguments of the `Enum` that’s generated by default as well as setting up specific `enum.Enum` types within the map with specific arguments.

  See also

  Using Python Enum or pep-586 Literal types in the type map

  References: #8859

- [orm] [usecase]

  Added `mapped_column.compare` parameter to relevant ORM attribute constructs including `mapped_column()`, `relationship()` etc. to provide for the Python dataclasses `compare` parameter on `field()`, when using the Declarative Dataclass Mapping feature. Pull request courtesy Simon Schiele.

  References: #8905

- [orm] [performance] [bug]

  Additional performance enhancements within ORM-enabled SQL statements, specifically targeting callcounts within the construction of ORM statements, using combinations of `aliased()` with `union()` and similar “compound” constructs, in addition to direct performance improvements to the `corresponding_column()` internal method that is used heavily by the ORM by constructs like `aliased()` and similar.

  References: #8796

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where use of an unknown datatype within a `Mapped` annotation for a column-based attribute would silently fail to map the attribute, rather than reporting an exception; an informative exception message is now raised.

  References: #8888

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed a suite of issues involving `Mapped` use with dictionary types, such as `Mapped[Dict[str, str] | None]`, would not be correctly interpreted in Declarative ORM mappings. Support to correctly “de-optionalize” this type including for lookup in `type_annotation_map` has been fixed.

  References: #8777

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed bug in Declarative Dataclass Mapping feature where using plain dataclass fields with the `__allow_unmapped__` directive in a mapping would not create a dataclass with the correct class-level state for those fields, copying the raw `Field` object to the class inappropriately after dataclasses itself had replaced the `Field` object with the class-level default value.

  References: #8880

- [orm] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression where flushing a mapped class that’s mapped against a subquery, such as a direct mapping or some forms of concrete table inheritance, would fail if the `Mapper.eager_defaults` parameter were used.

  References: #8812

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed regression in 2.0.0b3 caused by #8759 where indicating the `Mapped` name using a qualified name such as `sqlalchemy.orm.Mapped` would fail to be recognized by Declarative as indicating the `Mapped` construct.

  References: #8853

### orm extensions

- [usecase] [orm extensions]

  Added support for the `association_proxy()` extension function to take part within Python `dataclasses` configuration, when using the native dataclasses feature described at Declarative Dataclass Mapping. Included are attribute-level arguments including `association_proxy.init` and `association_proxy.default_factory`.

  Documentation for association proxy has also been updated to use “Annotated Declarative Table” forms within examples, including type annotations used for `AssocationProxy` itself.

  References: #8878

### sql

- [sql] [usecase]

  Added `ScalarValues` that can be used as a column element allowing using `Values` inside `IN` clauses or in conjunction with `ANY` or `ALL` collection aggregates. This new class is generated using the method `Values.scalar_values()`. The `Values` instance is now coerced to a `ScalarValues` when used in a `IN` or `NOT IN` operation.

  References: #6289

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed critical memory issue identified in cache key generation, where for very large and complex ORM statements that make use of lots of ORM aliases with subqueries, cache key generation could produce excessively large keys that were orders of magnitude bigger than the statement itself. Much thanks to Rollo Konig Brock for their very patient, long term help in finally identifying this issue.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.44

  References: #8790

- [sql] [bug]

  The approach to the `numeric` pep-249 paramstyle has been rewritten, and is now fully supported, including by features such as “expanding IN” and “insertmanyvalues”. Parameter names may also be repeated in the source SQL construct which will be correctly represented within the numeric format using a single parameter. Introduced an additional numeric paramstyle called `numeric_dollar`, which is specifically what’s used by the asyncpg dialect; the paramstyle is equivalent to `numeric` except numeric indicators are indicated by a dollar-sign rather than a colon. The asyncpg dialect now uses `numeric_dollar` paramstyle directly, rather than compiling to `format` style first.

  The `numeric` and `numeric_dollar` paramstyles assume that the target backend is capable of receiving the numeric parameters in any order, and will match the given parameter values to the statement based on matching their position (1-based) to the numeric indicator. This is the normal behavior of “numeric” paramstyles, although it was observed that the SQLite DBAPI implements a not-used “numeric” style that does not honor parameter ordering.

  References: #8849

- [sql] [bug]

  Adjusted the rendering of `RETURNING`, in particular when using `Insert`, such that it now renders columns using the same logic as that of the `Select` construct to generate labels, which will include disambiguating labels, as well as that a SQL function surrounding a named column will be labeled using the column name itself. This establishes better cross-compatibility when selecting rows from either `Select` constructs or from DML statements that use `UpdateBase.returning()`. A narrower scale change was also made for the 1.4 series that adjusted the function label issue only.

  References: #8770

### schema

- [schema] [bug]

  Stricter rules are in place for appending of `Column` objects to `Table` objects, both moving some previous deprecation warnings to exceptions, and preventing some previous scenarios that would cause duplicate columns to appear in tables, when `Table.extend_existing` were set to `True`, for both programmatic `Table` construction as well as during reflection operations.

  See Stricter rules for replacement of Columns in Table objects with same-names, keys for a rundown of these changes.

  See also

  Stricter rules for replacement of Columns in Table objects with same-names, keys

  References: #8925

### typing

- [typing] [usecase]

  Added a new type `SQLColumnExpression` which may be indicated in user code to represent any SQL column oriented expression, including both those based on `ColumnElement` as well as on ORM `QueryableAttribute`. This type is a real class, not an alias, so can also be used as the foundation for other objects. An additional ORM-specific subclass `SQLORMExpression` is also included.

  References: #8847

- [typing] [bug]

  Adjusted internal use of the Python `enum.IntFlag` class which changed its behavioral contract in Python 3.11. This was not causing runtime failures however caused typing runs to fail under Python 3.11.

  References: #8783

- [typing] [bug]

  The `sqlalchemy.ext.mutable` extension and `sqlalchemy.ext.automap` extensions are now fully pep-484 typed. Huge thanks to Gleb Kisenkov for their efforts on this.

  References: #6810, #8667

- [typing] [bug]

  Corrected typing support for the `relationship.secondary` argument which may also accept a callable (lambda) that returns a `FromClause`.

- [typing] [bug]

  Improved the typing for `sessionmaker` and `async_sessionmaker`, so that the default type of their return value will be `Session` or `AsyncSession`, without the need to type this explicitly. Previously, Mypy would not automatically infer these return types from its generic base.

  As part of this change, arguments for `Session`, `AsyncSession`, `sessionmaker` and `async_sessionmaker` beyond the initial “bind” argument have been made keyword-only, which includes parameters that have always been documented as keyword arguments, such as `Session.autoflush`, `Session.class_`, etc.

  Pull request courtesy Sam Bull.

  References: #8842

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed issue where passing a callbale function returning an iterable of column elements to `relationship.order_by` was flagged as an error in type checkers.

  References: #8776

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  Complementing #8690, new comparison methods such as `Range.adjacent_to()`, `Range.difference()`, `Range.union()`, etc., were added to the PG-specific range objects, bringing them in par with the standard operators implemented by the underlying `AbstractRange.comparator_factory`.

  In addition, the `__bool__()` method of the class has been corrected to be consistent with the common Python containers behavior as well as how other popular PostgreSQL drivers do: it now tells whether the range instance is not empty, rather than the other way around.

  Pull request courtesy Lele Gaifax.

  References: #8765

- [postgresql] [change] [asyncpg]

  Changed the paramstyle used by asyncpg from `format` to `numeric_dollar`. This has two main benefits since it does not require additional processing of the statement and allows for duplicate parameters to be present in the statements.

  References: #8926

- [postgresql] [bug] [mssql]

  For the PostgreSQL and SQL Server dialects only, adjusted the compiler so that when rendering column expressions in the RETURNING clause, the “non anon” label that’s used in SELECT statements is suggested for SQL expression elements that generate a label; the primary example is a SQL function that may be emitting as part of the column’s type, where the label name should match the column’s name by default. This restores a not-well defined behavior that had changed in version 1.4.21 due to #6718, #6710. The Oracle dialect has a different RETURNING implementation and was not affected by this issue. Version 2.0 features an across the board change for its widely expanded support of RETURNING on other backends.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.44

  References: #8770

- [postgresql] [bug]

  Added additional type-detection for the new PostgreSQL `Range` type, where previous cases that allowed the psycopg2-native range objects to be received directly by the DBAPI without SQLAlchemy intercepting them stopped working, as we now have our own value object. The `Range` object has been enhanced such that SQLAlchemy Core detects it in otherwise ambiguous situations (such as comparison to dates) and applies appropriate bind handlers. Pull request courtesy Lele Gaifax.

  References: #8884

### mssql

- [mssql] [bug]

  Fixed regression caused by the combination of #8177, re-enable setinputsizes for SQL server unless fast_executemany + DBAPI executemany is used for a statement, along with #6047, implement “insertmanyvalues”, which bypasses DBAPI executemany in place of a custom DBAPI execute for INSERT statements. setinputsizes would incorrectly not be used for a multiple parameter-set INSERT statement that used “insertmanyvalues” if fast_executemany were turned on, as the check would incorrectly assume this is a DBAPI executemany call. The “regression” would then be that the “insertmanyvalues” statement format is apparently slightly more sensitive to multiple rows that don’t use the same types for each row, so in such a case setinputsizes is especially needed.

  The fix repairs the fast_executemany check so that it only disables setinputsizes if true DBAPI executemany is to be used.

  References: #8917

### oracle

- [oracle] [bug]

  Continued fixes for Oracle fix #8708 released in 1.4.43 where bound parameter names that start with underscores, which are disallowed by Oracle, were still not being properly escaped in all circumstances.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.45

  References: #8708

### tests

- [tests] [bug]

  Fixed issue where the `--disable-asyncio` parameter to the test suite would fail to not actually run greenlet tests and would also not prevent the suite from using a “wrapping” greenlet for the whole suite. This parameter now ensures that no greenlet or asyncio use will occur within the entire run when set.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.44

  References: #8793

## 2.0.0b3

Released: November 4, 2022

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue in joined eager loading where an assertion fail would occur with a particular combination of outer/inner joined eager loads, when eager loading across three mappers where the middle mapper was an inherited subclass mapper.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.43

  References: #8738

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed bug involving `Select` constructs, where combinations of `Select.select_from()` with `Select.join()`, as well as when using `Select.join_from()`, would cause the `with_loader_criteria()` feature as well as the IN criteria needed for single-table inheritance queries to not render, in cases where the columns clause of the query did not explicitly include the left-hand side entity of the JOIN. The correct entity is now transferred to the `Join` object that’s generated internally, so that the criteria against the left side entity is correctly added.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.43

  References: #8721

- [orm] [bug]

  An informative exception is now raised when the `with_loader_criteria()` option is used as a loader option added to a specific “loader path”, such as when using it within `Load.options()`. This use is not supported as `with_loader_criteria()` is only intended to be used as a top level loader option. Previously, an internal error would be generated.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.43

  References: #8711

- [orm] [bug]

  Improved “dictionary mode” for `Session.get()` so that synonym names which refer to primary key attribute names may be indicated in the named dictionary.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.43

  References: #8753

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where “selectin_polymorphic” loading for inheritance mappers would not function correctly if the `Mapper.polymorphic_on` parameter referred to a SQL expression that was not directly mapped on the class.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.43

  References: #8704

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where the underlying DBAPI cursor would not be closed when using the `Query` object as an iterator, if a user-defined exception case were raised within the iteration process, thereby causing the iterator to be closed by the Python interpreter. When using `Query.yield_per()` to create server-side cursors, this would lead to the usual MySQL-related issues with server side cursors out of sync, and without direct access to the `Result` object, end-user code could not access the cursor in order to close it.

  To resolve, a catch for `GeneratorExit` is applied within the iterator method, which will close the result object in those cases when the iterator were interrupted, and by definition will be closed by the Python interpreter.

  As part of this change as implemented for the 1.4 series, ensured that `.close()` methods are available on all `Result` implementations including `ScalarResult`, `MappingResult`. The 2.0 version of this change also includes new context manager patterns for use with `Result` classes.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.43

  References: #8710

### orm declarative

- [orm] [declarative] [bug]

  Added support in ORM declarative annotations for class names specified for `relationship()`, as well as the name of the `Mapped` symbol itself, to be different names than their direct class name, to support scenarios such as where `Mapped` is imported as `from sqlalchemy.orm import Mapped as M`, or where related class names are imported with an alternate name in a similar fashion. Additionally, a target class name given as the lead argument for `relationship()` will always supersede the name given in the left hand annotation, so that otherwise un-importable names that also don’t match the class name can still be used in annotations.

  References: #8759

- [orm] [declarative] [bug]

  Improved support for legacy 1.4 mappings that use annotations which don’t include `Mapped[]`, by ensuring the `__allow_unmapped__` attribute can be used to allow such legacy annotations to pass through Annotated Declarative without raising an error and without being interpreted in an ORM runtime context. Additionally improved the error message generated when this condition is detected, and added more documentation for how this situation should be handled. Unfortunately the 1.4 WARN_SQLALCHEMY_20 migration warning cannot detect this particular configurational issue at runtime with its current architecture.

  References: #8692

- [orm] [declarative] [bug]

  Changed a fundamental configuration behavior of `Mapper`, where `Column` objects that are explicitly present in the `Mapper.properties` dictionary, either directly or enclosed within a mapper property object, will now be mapped within the order of how they appear within the mapped `Table` (or other selectable) itself (assuming they are in fact part of that table’s list of columns), thereby maintaining the same order of columns in the mapped selectable as is instrumented on the mapped class, as well as what renders in an ORM SELECT statement for that mapper. Previously (where “previously” means since version 0.0.1), `Column` objects in the `Mapper.properties` dictionary would always be mapped first, ahead of when the other columns in the mapped `Table` would be mapped, causing a discrepancy in the order in which the mapper would assign attributes to the mapped class as well as the order in which they would render in statements.

  The change most prominently takes place in the way that Declarative assigns declared columns to the `Mapper`, specifically how `Column` (or `mapped_column()`) objects are handled when they have a DDL name that is explicitly different from the mapped attribute name, as well as when constructs such as `deferred()` etc. are used. The new behavior will see the column ordering within the mapped `Table` being the same order in which the attributes are mapped onto the class, assigned within the `Mapper` itself, and rendered in ORM statements such as SELECT statements, independent of how the `Column` was configured against the `Mapper`.

  References: #8705

- [orm] [declarative] [bug]

  Fixed issue in new dataclass mapping feature where a column declared on the declarative base / abstract base / mixin would leak into the constructor for an inheriting subclass under some circumstances.

  References: #8718

- [bug] [orm declarative]

  Fixed issues within the declarative typing resolver (i.e. which resolves `ForwardRef` objects) where types that were declared for columns in one particular source file would raise `NameError` when the ultimate mapped class were in another source file. The types are now resolved in terms of the module for each class in which the types are used.

  References: #8742

### engine

- [engine] [feature]

  To better support the use case of iterating `Result` and `AsyncResult` objects where user-defined exceptions may interrupt the iteration, both objects as well as variants such as `ScalarResult`, `MappingResult`, `AsyncScalarResult`, `AsyncMappingResult` now support context manager usage, where the result will be closed at the end of the context manager block.

  In addition, ensured that all the above mentioned `Result` objects include a `Result.close()` method as well as `Result.closed` accessors, including `ScalarResult` and `MappingResult` which previously did not have a `.close()` method.

  See also

  Context Manager Support for Result, AsyncResult

  References: #8710

- [engine] [usecase]

  Added new parameter `PoolEvents.reset.reset_state` parameter to the `PoolEvents.reset()` event, with deprecation logic in place that will continue to accept event hooks using the previous set of arguments. This indicates various state information about how the reset is taking place and is used to allow custom reset schemes to take place with full context given.

  Within this change a fix that’s also backported to 1.4 is included which re-enables the `PoolEvents.reset()` event to continue to take place under all circumstances, including when `Connection` has already “reset” the connection.

  The two changes together allow custom reset schemes to be implemented using the `PoolEvents.reset()` event, instead of the `PoolEvents.checkin()` event (which continues to function as it always has).

  References: #8717

- [engine] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed issue where the `PoolEvents.reset()` event hook would not be be called in all cases when a `Connection` were closed and was in the process of returning its DBAPI connection to the connection pool.

  The scenario was when the `Connection` had already emitted `.rollback()` on its DBAPI connection within the process of returning the connection to the pool, where it would then instruct the connection pool to forego doing its own “reset” to save on the additional method call. However, this prevented custom pool reset schemes from being used within this hook, as such hooks by definition are doing more than just calling `.rollback()`, and need to be invoked under all circumstances. This was a regression that appeared in version 1.4.

  For version 1.4, the `PoolEvents.checkin()` remains viable as an alternate event hook to use for custom “reset” implementations. Version 2.0 will feature an improved version of `PoolEvents.reset()` which is called for additional scenarios such as termination of asyncio connections, and is also passed contextual information about the reset, to allow for “custom connection reset” schemes which can respond to different reset scenarios in different ways.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.43

  References: #8717

### sql

- [sql] [bug]

  Fixed issue which prevented the `literal_column()` construct from working properly within the context of a `Select` construct as well as other potential places where “anonymized labels” might be generated, if the literal expression contained characters which could interfere with format strings, such as open parenthesis, due to an implementation detail of the “anonymous label” structure.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.43

  References: #8724

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Corrected various typing issues within the engine and async engine packages.

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [feature]

  Added new methods `Range.contains()` and `Range.contained_by()` to the new `Range` data object, which mirror the behavior of the PostgreSQL `@>` and `<@` operators, as well as the `comparator_factory.contains()` and `comparator_factory.contained_by()` SQL operator methods. Pull request courtesy Lele Gaifax.

  References: #8706

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  Refined the new approach to range objects described at New RANGE / MULTIRANGE support and changes for PostgreSQL backends to accommodate driver-specific range and multirange objects, to better accommodate both legacy code as well as when passing results from raw SQL result sets back into new range or multirange expressions.

  References: #8690

### mssql

- [mssql] [bug]

  Fixed issue with `Inspector.has_table()`, which when used against a temporary table with the SQL Server dialect would fail on some Azure variants, due to an unnecessary information schema query that is not supported on those server versions. Pull request courtesy Mike Barry.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.43

  References: #8714

- [mssql] [bug] [reflection]

  Fixed issue with `Inspector.has_table()`, which when used against a view with the SQL Server dialect would erroneously return `False`, due to a regression in the 1.4 series which removed support for this on SQL Server. The issue is not present in the 2.0 series which uses a different reflection architecture. Test support is added to ensure `has_table()` remains working per spec re: views.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.43

  References: #8700

### oracle

- [oracle] [bug]

  Fixed issue where bound parameter names, including those automatically derived from similarly-named database columns, which contained characters that normally require quoting with Oracle would not be escaped when using “expanding parameters” with the Oracle dialect, causing execution errors. The usual “quoting” for bound parameters used by the Oracle dialect is not used with the “expanding parameters” architecture, so escaping for a large range of characters is used instead, now using a list of characters/escapes that are specific to Oracle.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.43

  References: #8708

- [oracle] [bug]

  Fixed issue where the `nls_session_parameters` view queried on first connect in order to get the default decimal point character may not be available depending on Oracle connection modes, and would therefore raise an error. The approach to detecting decimal char has been simplified to test a decimal value directly, instead of reading system views, which works on any backend / driver.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.43

  References: #8744

## 2.0.0b2

Released: October 20, 2022

### orm

- [orm] [bug]

  Removed the warning that emits when using ORM-enabled update/delete regarding evaluation of columns by name, first added in #4073; this warning actually covers up a scenario that otherwise could populate the wrong Python value for an ORM mapped attribute depending on what the actual column is, so this deprecated case is removed. In 2.0, ORM enabled update/delete uses “auto” for “synchronize_session”, which should do the right thing automatically for any given UPDATE expression.

  References: #8656

### orm declarative

- [orm] [declarative] [usecase]

  Added support for mapped classes that are also `Generic` subclasses, to be specified as a `GenericAlias` object (e.g. `MyClass[str]`) within statements and calls to `inspect()`.

  References: #8665

- [orm] [declarative] [bug]

  Improved the `DeclarativeBase` class so that when combined with other mixins like `MappedAsDataclass`, the order of the classes may be in either order.

  References: #8665

- [orm] [declarative] [bug]

  Fixed bug in new ORM typed declarative mappings where the ability to use `Optional[MyClass]` or similar forms such as `MyClass | None` in the type annotation for a many-to-one relationship was not implemented, leading to errors. Documentation has also been added for this use case to the relationship configuration documentation.

  References: #8668

- [orm] [declarative] [bug]

  Fixed issue with new dataclass mapping feature where arguments passed to the dataclasses API could sometimes be mis-ordered when dealing with mixins that override `mapped_column()` declarations, leading to initializer problems.

  References: #8688

### sql

- [sql] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed bug in new “insertmanyvalues” feature where INSERT that included a subquery with `bindparam()` inside of it would fail to render correctly in “insertmanyvalues” format. This affected psycopg2 most directly as “insertmanyvalues” is used unconditionally with this driver.

  References: #8639

### typing

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing issue where pylance strict mode would report “instance variable overrides class variable” when using a method to define `__tablename__`, `__mapper_args__` or `__table_args__`.

  References: #8645

- [typing] [bug]

  Fixed typing issue where pylance strict mode would report “partially unknown” datatype for the `mapped_column()` construct.

  References: #8644

### mssql

- [mssql] [bug]

  Fixed regression caused by SQL Server pyodbc change #8177 where we now use `setinputsizes()` by default; for VARCHAR, this fails if the character size is greater than 4000 (or 2000, depending on data) characters as the incoming datatype is NVARCHAR, which has a limit of 4000 characters, despite the fact that VARCHAR can handle unlimited characters. Additional pyodbc-specific typing information is now passed to `setinputsizes()` when the datatype’s size is > 2000 characters. The change is also applied to the `JSON` type which was also impacted by this issue for large JSON serializations.

  References: #8661

- [mssql] [bug]

  The `Sequence` construct restores itself to the DDL behavior it had prior to the 1.4 series, where creating a `Sequence` with no additional arguments will emit a simple `CREATE SEQUENCE` instruction without any additional parameters for “start value”. For most backends, this is how things worked previously in any case; however, for MS SQL Server, the default value on this database is `-2**63`; to prevent this generally impractical default from taking effect on SQL Server, the `Sequence.start` parameter should be provided. As usage of `Sequence` is unusual for SQL Server which for many years has standardized on `IDENTITY`, it is hoped that this change has minimal impact.

  See also

  The Sequence construct reverts to not having any explicit default “start” value; impacts MS SQL Server

  References: #7211

## 2.0.0b1

Released: October 13, 2022

### general

- [general] [changed]

  Migrated the codebase to remove all pre-2.0 behaviors and architectures that were previously noted as deprecated for removal in 2.0, including, but not limited to:

  - removal of all Python 2 code, minimum version is now Python 3.7

  - `Engine` and `Connection` now use the new 2.0 style of working, which includes “autobegin”, library level autocommit removed, subtransactions and “branched” connections removed

  - Result objects use 2.0-style behaviors; `Row` is fully a named tuple without “mapping” behavior, use `RowMapping` for “mapping” behavior

  - All Unicode encoding/decoding architecture has been removed from SQLAlchemy. All modern DBAPI implementations support Unicode transparently thanks to Python 3, so the `convert_unicode` feature as well as related mechanisms to look for bytestrings in DBAPI `cursor.description` etc. have been removed.

  - The `.bind` attribute and parameter from `MetaData`, `Table`, and from all DDL/DML/DQL elements that previously could refer to a “bound engine”

  - The standalone `sqlalchemy.orm.mapper()` function is removed; all classical mapping should be done through the `registry.map_imperatively()` method of `registry`.

  - The `Query.join()` method no longer accepts strings for relationship names; the long-documented approach of using `Class.attrname` for join targets is now standard.

  - `Query.join()` no longer accepts the “aliased” and “from_joinpoint” arguments

  - `Query.join()` no longer accepts chains of multiple join targets in one method call.

  - `Query.from_self()`, `Query.select_entity_from()` and `Query.with_polymorphic()` are removed.

  - The `relationship.cascade_backrefs` parameter must now remain at its new default of `False`; the `save-update` cascade no longer cascades along a backref.

  - the `Session.future` parameter must always be set to `True`. 2.0-style transactional patterns for `Session` are now always in effect.

  - Loader options no longer accept strings for attribute names. The long-documented approach of using `Class.attrname` for loader option targets is now standard.

  - Legacy forms of `select()` removed, including `select([cols])`, the “whereclause” and keyword parameters of `some_table.select()`.

  - Legacy “in-place mutator” methods on `Select` such as `append_whereclause()`, `append_order_by()` etc are removed.

  - Removed the very old “dbapi_proxy” module, which in very early SQLAlchemy releases was used to provide a transparent connection pool over a raw DBAPI connection.

  References: #7257

- [general] [changed]

  The `Query.instances()` method is deprecated. The behavioral contract of this method, which is that it can iterate objects through arbitrary result sets, is long obsolete and no longer tested. Arbitrary statements can return objects by using constructs such as :meth`.Select.from_statement` or `aliased()`.

### platform

- [platform] [feature]

  The SQLAlchemy C extensions have been replaced with all new implementations written in Cython. Like the C extensions before, pre-built wheel files for a wide range of platforms are available on pypi so that building is not an issue for common platforms. For custom builds, `python setup.py build_ext` works as before, needing only the additional Cython install. `pyproject.toml` is also part of the source now which will establish the proper build dependencies when using pip.

  See also

  C Extensions now ported to Cython

  References: #7256

- [platform] [change]

  SQLAlchemy’s source build and installation now includes a `pyproject.toml` file for full PEP 517 support.

  See also

  Installation is now fully pep-517 enabled

  References: #7311

### orm

- [orm] [feature] [sql]

  Added new feature to all included dialects that support RETURNING called “insertmanyvalues”. This is a generalization of the “fast executemany” feature first introduced for the psycopg2 driver in 1.4 at ORM Batch inserts with psycopg2 now batch statements with RETURNING in most cases, which allows the ORM to batch INSERT statements into a much more efficient SQL structure while still being able to fetch newly generated primary key and SQL default values using RETURNING.

  The feature now applies to the many dialects that support RETURNING along with multiple VALUES constructs for INSERT, including all PostgreSQL drivers, SQLite, MariaDB, MS SQL Server. Separately, the Oracle dialect also gains the same capability using native cx_Oracle or OracleDB features.

  References: #6047

- [orm] [feature]

  Added new parameter `AttributeEvents.include_key`, which will include the dictionary or list key for operations such as `__setitem__()` (e.g. `obj[key] = value`) and `__delitem__()` (e.g. `del obj[key]`), using a new keyword parameter “key” or “keys”, depending on event, e.g. `AttributeEvents.append.key`, `AttributeEvents.bulk_replace.keys`. This allows event handlers to take into account the key that was passed to the operation and is of particular importance for dictionary operations working with `MappedCollection`.

  References: #8375

- [orm] [feature]

  Added new parameter `Operators.op.python_impl`, available from `Operators.op()` and also when using the `custom_op` constructor directly, which allows an in-Python evaluation function to be provided along with the custom SQL operator. This evaluation function becomes the implementation used when the operator object is used given plain Python objects as operands on both sides, and in particular is compatible with the `synchronize_session='evaluate'` option used with ORM-Enabled INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements.

  References: #3162

- [orm] [feature]

  The `Session` (and by extension `AsyncSession`) now has new state-tracking functionality that will proactively trap any unexpected state changes which occur as a particular transactional method proceeds. This is to allow situations where the `Session` is being used in a thread-unsafe manner, where event hooks or similar may be calling unexpected methods within operations, as well as potentially under other concurrency situations such as asyncio or gevent to raise an informative message when the illegal access first occurs, rather than passing silently leading to secondary failures due to the `Session` being in an invalid state.

  See also

  Session raises proactively when illegal concurrent or reentrant access is detected

  References: #7433

- [orm] [feature]

  The `composite()` mapping construct now supports automatic resolution of values when used with a Python `dataclass`; the `__composite_values__()` method no longer needs to be implemented as this method is derived from inspection of the dataclass.

  Additionally, classes mapped by `composite` now support ordering comparison operations, e.g. `<`, `>=`, etc.

  See the new documentation at Composite Column Types for examples.

- [orm] [feature]

  Added very experimental feature to the `selectinload()` and `immediateload()` loader options called `selectinload.recursion_depth` / `immediateload.recursion_depth` , which allows a single loader option to automatically recurse into self-referential relationships. Is set to an integer indicating depth, and may also be set to -1 to indicate to continue loading until no more levels deep are found. Major internal changes to `selectinload()` and `immediateload()` allow this feature to work while continuing to make correct use of the compilation cache, as well as not using arbitrary recursion, so any level of depth is supported (though would emit that many queries). This may be useful for self-referential structures that must be loaded fully eagerly, such as when using asyncio.

  A warning is also emitted when loader options are connected together with arbitrary lengths (that is, without using the new `recursion_depth` option) when excessive recursion depth is detected in related object loading. This operation continues to use huge amounts of memory and performs extremely poorly; the cache is disabled when this condition is detected to protect the cache from being flooded with arbitrary statements.

  References: #8126

- [orm] [feature]

  Added new parameter `Session.autobegin`, which when set to `False` will prevent the `Session` from beginning a transaction implicitly. The `Session.begin()` method must be called explicitly first in order to proceed with operations, otherwise an error is raised whenever any operation would otherwise have begun automatically. This option can be used to create a “safe” `Session` that won’t implicitly start new transactions.

  As part of this change, also added a new status variable `origin` which may be useful for event handling code to be aware of the origin of a particular `SessionTransaction`.

  References: #6928

- [orm] [feature]

  Declarative mixins which use `Column` objects that contain `ForeignKey` references no longer need to use `declared_attr()` to achieve this mapping; the `ForeignKey` object is copied along with the `Column` itself when the column is applied to the declared mapping.

- [orm] [usecase]

  Added `load_only.raiseload` parameter to the `load_only()` loader option, so that the unloaded attributes may have “raise” behavior rather than lazy loading. Previously there wasn’t really a way to do this with the `load_only()` option directly.

- [orm] [change]

  To better accommodate explicit typing, the names of some ORM constructs that are typically constructed internally, but nonetheless are sometimes visible in messaging as well as typing, have been changed to more succinct names which also match the name of their constructing function (with different casing), in all cases maintaining aliases to the old names for the foreseeable future:

  - `RelationshipProperty` becomes an alias for the primary name `Relationship`, which is constructed as always from the `relationship()` function

  - `SynonymProperty` becomes an alias for the primary name `Synonym`, constructed as always from the `synonym()` function

  - `CompositeProperty` becomes an alias for the primary name `Composite`, constructed as always from the `composite()` function

- [orm] [change]

  For consistency with the prominent ORM concept `Mapped`, the names of the dictionary-oriented collections, `attribute_mapped_collection()`, `column_mapped_collection()`, and `MappedCollection`, are changed to `attribute_keyed_dict()`, `column_keyed_dict()` and `KeyFuncDict`, using the phrase “dict” to minimize any confusion against the term “mapped”. The old names will remain indefinitely with no schedule for removal.

  References: #8608

- [orm] [bug]

  All `Result` objects will now consistently raise `ResourceClosedError` if they are used after a hard close, which includes the “hard close” that occurs after calling “single row or value” methods like `Result.first()` and `Result.scalar()`. This was already the behavior of the most common class of result objects returned for Core statement executions, i.e. those based on `CursorResult`, so this behavior is not new. However, the change has been extended to properly accommodate for the ORM “filtering” result objects returned when using 2.0 style ORM queries, which would previously behave in “soft closed” style of returning empty results, or wouldn’t actually “soft close” at all and would continue yielding from the underlying cursor.

  As part of this change, also added `Result.close()` to the base `Result` class and implemented it for the filtered result implementations that are used by the ORM, so that it is possible to call the `CursorResult.close()` method on the underlying `CursorResult` when the `yield_per` execution option is in use to close a server side cursor before remaining ORM results have been fetched. This was again already available for Core result sets but the change makes it available for 2.0 style ORM results as well.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.27

  References: #7274

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue where the `registry.map_declaratively()` method would return an internal “mapper config” object and not the `Mapper` object as stated in the API documentation.

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed performance regression which appeared at least in version 1.3 if not earlier (sometime after 1.0) where the loading of deferred columns, those explicitly mapped with `defer()` as opposed to non-deferred columns that were expired, from a joined inheritance subclass would not use the “optimized” query which only queried the immediate table that contains the unloaded columns, instead running a full ORM query which would emit a JOIN for all base tables, which is not necessary when only loading columns from the subclass.

  References: #7463

- [orm] [bug]

  The internals for the `Load` object and related loader strategy patterns have been mostly rewritten, to take advantage of the fact that only attribute-bound paths, not strings, are now supported. The rewrite hopes to make it more straightforward to address new use cases and subtle issues within the loader strategy system going forward.

  References: #6986

- [orm] [bug]

  Made an improvement to the “deferred” / “load_only” set of strategy options where if a certain object is loaded from two different logical paths within one query, attributes that have been configured by at least one of the options to be populated will be populated in all cases, even if other load paths for that same object did not set this option. previously, it was based on randomness as to which “path” addressed the object first.

  References: #8166

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed issue in ORM enabled UPDATE when the statement is created against a joined-inheritance subclass, updating only local table columns, where the “fetch” synchronization strategy would not render the correct RETURNING clause for databases that use RETURNING for fetch synchronization. Also adjusts the strategy used for RETURNING in UPDATE FROM and DELETE FROM statements.

  References: #8344

- [orm] [bug] [asyncio]

  Removed the unused `**kw` arguments from `begin` and `begin_nested`. These kw aren’t used and appear to have been added to the API in error.

  References: #7703

- [orm] [bug]

  Changed the attribute access method used by `attribute_mapped_collection()` and `column_mapped_collection()` (now called `attribute_keyed_dict()` and `column_keyed_dict()`) , used when populating the dictionary, to assert that the data value on the object to be used as the dictionary key is actually present, and is not instead using “None” due to the attribute never being actually assigned. This is used to prevent a mis-population of None for a key when assigning via a backref where the “key” attribute on the object is not yet assigned.

  As the failure mode here is a transitory condition that is not typically persisted to the database, and is easy to produce via the constructor of the class based on the order in which parameters are assigned, it is very possible that many applications include this behavior already which is silently passed over. To accommodate for applications where this error is now raised, a new parameter `attribute_keyed_dict.ignore_unpopulated_attribute` is also added to both `attribute_keyed_dict()` and `column_keyed_dict()` that instead causes the erroneous backref assignment to be skipped.

  References: #8372

- [orm] [bug]

  Added new parameter `AbstractConcreteBase.strict_attrs` to the `AbstractConcreteBase` declarative mixin class. The effect of this parameter is that the scope of attributes on subclasses is correctly limited to the subclass in which each attribute is declared, rather than the previous behavior where all attributes of the entire hierarchy are applied to the base “abstract” class. This produces a cleaner, more correct mapping where subclasses no longer have non-useful attributes on them which are only relevant to sibling classes. The default for this parameter is False, which leaves the previous behavior unchanged; this is to support existing code that makes explicit use of these attributes in queries. To migrate to the newer approach, apply explicit attributes to the abstract base class as needed.

  References: #8403

- [orm] [bug]

  The behavior of `defer()` regarding primary key and “polymorphic discriminator” columns is revised such that these columns are no longer deferrable, either explicitly or when using a wildcard such as `defer('*')`. Previously, a wildcard deferral would not load PK/polymorphic columns which led to errors in all cases, as the ORM relies upon these columns to produce object identities. The behavior of explicit deferral of primary key columns is unchanged as these deferrals already were implicitly ignored.

  References: #7495

- [orm] [bug]

  Fixed bug in the behavior of the `Mapper.eager_defaults` parameter such that client-side SQL default or onupdate expressions in the table definition alone will trigger a fetch operation using RETURNING or SELECT when the ORM emits an INSERT or UPDATE for the row. Previously, only server side defaults established as part of table DDL and/or server-side onupdate expressions would trigger this fetch, even though client-side SQL expressions would be included when the fetch was rendered.

  References: #7438

### engine

- [engine] [feature]

  The `DialectEvents.handle_error()` event is now moved to the `DialectEvents` suite from the `EngineEvents` suite, and now participates in the connection pool “pre ping” event for those dialects that make use of disconnect codes in order to detect if the database is live. This allows end-user code to alter the state of “pre ping”. Note that this does not include dialects which contain a native “ping” method such as that of psycopg2 or most MySQL dialects.

  References: #5648

- [engine] [feature]

  The `ConnectionEvents.set_connection_execution_options()` and `ConnectionEvents.set_engine_execution_options()` event hooks now allow the given options dictionary to be modified in-place, where the new contents will be received as the ultimate execution options to be acted upon. Previously, in-place modifications to the dictionary were not supported.

- [engine] [usecase]

  Generalized the `create_engine.isolation_level` parameter to the base dialect so that it is no longer dependent on individual dialects to be present. This parameter sets up the “isolation level” setting to occur for all new database connections as soon as they are created by the connection pool, where the value then stays set without being reset on every checkin.

  The `create_engine.isolation_level` parameter is essentially equivalent in functionality to using the `Engine.execution_options.isolation_level` parameter via `Engine.execution_options()` for an engine-wide setting. The difference is in that the former setting assigns the isolation level just once when a connection is created, the latter sets and resets the given level on each connection checkout.

  References: #6342

- [engine] [change]

  Some small API changes regarding engines and dialects:

  - The `Dialect.set_isolation_level()`, `Dialect.get_isolation_level()`, :meth: dialect methods will always be passed the raw DBAPI connection

  - The `Connection` and `Engine` classes no longer share a base `Connectable` superclass, which has been removed.

  - Added a new interface class `PoolProxiedConnection` - this is the public facing interface for the familiar `_ConnectionFairy` class which is nonetheless a private class.

  References: #7122

- [engine] [bug] [regression]

  Fixed regression where the `CursorResult.fetchmany()` method would fail to autoclose a server-side cursor (i.e. when `stream_results` or `yield_per` is in use, either Core or ORM oriented results) when the results were fully exhausted.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.27

  References: #7274

- [engine] [bug]

  Fixed issue in future `Engine` where calling upon `Engine.begin()` and entering the context manager would not close the connection if the actual BEGIN operation failed for some reason, such as an event handler raising an exception; this use case failed to be tested for the future version of the engine. Note that the “future” context managers which handle `begin()` blocks in Core and ORM don’t actually run the “BEGIN” operation until the context managers are actually entered. This is different from the legacy version which runs the “BEGIN” operation up front.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.27

  References: #7272

- [engine] [bug]

  The `QueuePool` now ignores `max_overflow` when `pool_size=0`, properly making the pool unlimited in all cases.

  References: #8523

- [engine] [bug]

  For improved security, the `URL` object will now use password obfuscation by default when `str(url)` is called. To stringify a URL with cleartext password, the `URL.render_as_string()` may be used, passing the `URL.render_as_string.hide_password` parameter as `False`. Thanks to our contributors for this pull request.

  See also

  str(engine.url) will obfuscate the password by default

  References: #8567

- [engine] [bug]

  The `Inspector.has_table()` method will now consistently check for views of the given name as well as tables. Previously this behavior was dialect dependent, with PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB and SQLite supporting it, and Oracle and SQL Server not supporting it. Third party dialects should also seek to ensure their `Inspector.has_table()` method searches for views as well as tables for the given name.

  References: #7161

- [engine] [bug]

  Fixed issue in `Result.columns()` method where calling upon `Result.columns()` with a single index could in some cases, particularly ORM result object cases, cause the `Result` to yield scalar objects rather than `Row` objects, as though the `Result.scalars()` method had been called. In SQLAlchemy 1.4, this scenario emits a warning that the behavior will change in SQLAlchemy 2.0.

  References: #7953

- [engine] [bug]

  Passing a `DefaultGenerator` object such as a `Sequence` to the `Connection.execute()` method is deprecated, as this method is typed as returning a `CursorResult` object, and not a plain scalar value. The `Connection.scalar()` method should be used instead, which has been reworked with new internal codepaths to suit invoking a SELECT for default generation objects without going through the `Connection.execute()` method.

- [engine] [removed]

  Removed the previously deprecated `case_sensitive` parameter from `create_engine()`, which would impact only the lookup of string column names in Core-only result set rows; it had no effect on the behavior of the ORM. The effective behavior of what `case_sensitive` refers towards remains at its default value of `True`, meaning that string names looked up in `row._mapping` will match case-sensitively, just like any other Python mapping.

  Note that the `case_sensitive` parameter was not in any way related to the general subject of case sensitivity control, quoting, and “name normalization” (i.e. converting for databases that consider all uppercase words to be case insensitive) for DDL identifier names, which remains a normal core feature of SQLAlchemy.

- [engine] [removed]

  Removed legacy and deprecated package `sqlalchemy.databases`. Please use `sqlalchemy.dialects` instead.

  References: #7258

- [engine] [deprecations]

  The `create_engine.implicit_returning` parameter is deprecated on the `create_engine()` function only; the parameter remains available on the `Table` object. This parameter was originally intended to enable the “implicit returning” feature of SQLAlchemy when it was first developed and was not enabled by default. Under modern use, there’s no reason this parameter should be disabled, and it has been observed to cause confusion as it degrades performance and makes it more difficult for the ORM to retrieve recently inserted server defaults. The parameter remains available on `Table` to specifically suit database-level edge cases which make RETURNING infeasible, the sole example currently being SQL Server’s limitation that INSERT RETURNING may not be used on a table that has INSERT triggers on it.

  References: #6962

### sql

- [sql] [feature]

  > Added long-requested case-insensitive string operators `ColumnOperators.icontains()`, `ColumnOperators.istartswith()`, `ColumnOperators.iendswith()`, which produce case-insensitive LIKE compositions (using ILIKE on PostgreSQL, and the LOWER() function on all other backends) to complement the existing LIKE composition operators `ColumnOperators.contains()`, `ColumnOperators.startswith()`, etc. Huge thanks to Matias Martinez Rebori for their meticulous and complete efforts in implementing these new methods.

  References: #3482

- [sql] [feature]

  Added new syntax to the `FromClause.c` collection on all `FromClause` objects allowing tuples of keys to be passed to `__getitem__()`, along with support for the `select()` construct to handle the resulting tuple-like collection directly, allowing the syntax `select(table.c['a', 'b', 'c'])` to be possible. The sub-collection returned is itself a `ColumnCollection` which is also directly consumable by `select()` and similar now.

  See also

  Setting the COLUMNS and FROM clause

  References: #8285

- [sql] [feature]

  Added new backend-agnostic `Uuid` datatype generalized from the PostgreSQL dialects to now be a core type, as well as migrated `UUID` from the PostgreSQL dialect. The SQL Server `UNIQUEIDENTIFIER` datatype also becomes a UUID-handling datatype. Thanks to Trevor Gross for the help on this.

  References: #7212

- [sql] [feature]

  Added `Double`, `DOUBLE`, `DOUBLE_PRECISION` datatypes to the base `sqlalchemy.` module namespace, for explicit use of double/double precision as well as generic “double” datatypes. Use `Double` for generic support that will resolve to DOUBLE/DOUBLE PRECISION/FLOAT as needed for different backends.

  References: #5465

- [sql] [usecase]

  Altered the compilation mechanics of the `Insert` construct such that the “autoincrement primary key” column value will be fetched via `cursor.lastrowid` or RETURNING even if present in the parameter set or within the `Insert.values()` method as a plain bound value, for single-row INSERT statements on specific backends that are known to generate autoincrementing values even when explicit NULL is passed. This restores a behavior that was in the 1.3 series for both the use case of separate parameter set as well as `Insert.values()`. In 1.4, the parameter set behavior unintentionally changed to no longer do this, but the `Insert.values()` method would still fetch autoincrement values up until 1.4.21 where #6770 changed the behavior yet again again unintentionally as this use case was never covered.

  The behavior is now defined as “working” to suit the case where databases such as SQLite, MySQL and MariaDB will ignore an explicit NULL primary key value and nonetheless invoke an autoincrement generator.

  References: #7998

- [sql] [usecase]

  Added modified ISO-8601 rendering (i.e. ISO-8601 with the T converted to a space) when using `literal_binds` with the SQL compilers provided by the PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MSSQL, Oracle dialects. For Oracle, the ISO format is wrapped inside of an appropriate TO_DATE() function call. Previously this rendering was not implemented for dialect-specific compilation.

  See also

  DATE, TIME, DATETIME datatypes now support literal rendering on all backends

  References: #5052

- [sql] [usecase]

  Added new parameter `HasCTE.add_cte.nest_here` to `HasCTE.add_cte()` which will “nest” a given `CTE` at the level of the parent statement. This parameter is equivalent to using the `HasCTE.cte.nesting` parameter, but may be more intuitive in some scenarios as it allows the nesting attribute to be set simultaneously along with the explicit level of the CTE.

  The `HasCTE.add_cte()` method also accepts multiple CTE objects.

  References: #7759

- [sql] [bug]

  The FROM clauses that are established on a `select()` construct when using the `Select.select_from()` method will now render first in the FROM clause of the rendered SELECT, which serves to maintain the ordering of clauses as was passed to the `Select.select_from()` method itself without being affected by the presence of those clauses also being mentioned in other parts of the query. If other elements of the `Select` also generate FROM clauses, such as the columns clause or WHERE clause, these will render after the clauses delivered by `Select.select_from()` assuming they were not explicitly passed to `Select.select_from()` also. This improvement is useful in those cases where a particular database generates a desirable query plan based on a particular ordering of FROM clauses and allows full control over the ordering of FROM clauses.

  References: #7888

- [sql] [bug]

  The `Enum.length` parameter, which sets the length of the `VARCHAR` column for non-native enumeration types, is now used unconditionally when emitting DDL for the `VARCHAR` datatype, including when the `Enum.native_enum` parameter is set to `True` for target backends that continue to use `VARCHAR`. Previously the parameter would be erroneously ignored in this case. The warning previously emitted for this case is now removed.

  References: #7791

- [sql] [bug]

  The in-place type detection for Python integers, as occurs with an expression such as `literal(25)`, will now apply value-based adaption as well to accommodate Python large integers, where the datatype determined will be `BigInteger` rather than `Integer`. This accommodates for dialects such as that of asyncpg which both sends implicit typing information to the driver as well as is sensitive to numeric scale.

  References: #7909

- [sql] [bug]

  Added `if_exists` and `if_not_exists` parameters for all “Create” / “Drop” constructs including `CreateSequence`, `DropSequence`, `CreateIndex`, `DropIndex`, etc. allowing generic “IF EXISTS” / “IF NOT EXISTS” phrases to be rendered within DDL. Pull request courtesy Jesse Bakker.

  References: #7354

- [sql] [bug]

  Improved the construction of SQL binary expressions to allow for very long expressions against the same associative operator without special steps needed in order to avoid high memory use and excess recursion depth. A particular binary operation `A op B` can now be joined against another element `op C` and the resulting structure will be “flattened” so that the representation as well as SQL compilation does not require recursion.

  One effect of this change is that string concatenation expressions which use SQL functions come out as “flat”, e.g. MySQL will now render `concat('x', 'y', 'z', ...)`` rather than nesting together two-element functions like `concat(concat('x', 'y'), 'z')`. Third-party dialects which override the string concatenation operator will need to implement a new method `def visit_concat_op_expression_clauselist()` to accompany the existing `def visit_concat_op_binary()` method.

  References: #7744

- [sql] [bug]

  Implemented full support for “truediv” and “floordiv” using the “/” and “//” operators. A “truediv” operation between two expressions using `Integer` now considers the result to be `Numeric`, and the dialect-level compilation will cast the right operand to a numeric type on a dialect-specific basis to ensure truediv is achieved. For floordiv, conversion is also added for those databases that don’t already do floordiv by default (MySQL, Oracle) and the `FLOOR()` function is rendered in this case, as well as for cases where the right operand is not an integer (needed for PostgreSQL, others).

  The change resolves issues both with inconsistent behavior of the division operator on different backends and also fixes an issue where integer division on Oracle would fail to be able to fetch a result due to inappropriate outputtypehandlers.

  See also

  Python division operator performs true division for all backends; added floor division

  References: #4926

- [sql] [bug]

  Added an additional lookup step to the compiler which will track all FROM clauses which are tables, that may have the same name shared in multiple schemas where one of the schemas is the implicit “default” schema; in this case, the table name when referring to that name without a schema qualification will be rendered with an anonymous alias name at the compiler level in order to disambiguate the two (or more) names. The approach of schema-qualifying the normally unqualified name with the server-detected “default schema name” value was also considered, however this approach doesn’t apply to Oracle nor is it accepted by SQL Server, nor would it work with multiple entries in the PostgreSQL search path. The name collision issue resolved here has been identified as affecting at least Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL and MariaDB.

  References: #7471

- [sql] [bug]

  Python string values for which a SQL type is determined from the type of the value, mainly when using `literal()`, will now apply the `String` type, rather than the `Unicode` datatype, for Python string values that test as “ascii only” using Python `str.isascii()`. If the string is not `isascii()`, the `Unicode` datatype will be bound instead, which was used in all string detection previously. This behavior only applies to in-place detection of datatypes when using ``literal()`` or other contexts that have no existing datatype, which is not usually the case under normal `Column` comparison operations, where the type of the `Column` being compared always takes precedence.

  Use of the `Unicode` datatype can determine literal string formatting on backends such as SQL Server, where a literal value (i.e. using `literal_binds`) will be rendered as `N'<value>'` instead of `'value'`. For normal bound value handling, the `Unicode` datatype also may have implications for passing values to the DBAPI, again in the case of SQL Server, the pyodbc driver supports the use of setinputsizes mode which will handle `String` versus `Unicode` differently.

  References: #7551

- [sql] [bug]

  The `array_agg` will now set the array dimensions to 1. Improved `ARRAY` processing to accept `None` values as value of a multi-array.

  References: #7083

### schema

- [schema] [feature]

  Expanded on the “conditional DDL” system implemented by the `ExecutableDDLElement` class (renamed from `DDLElement`) to be directly available on `SchemaItem` constructs such as `Index`, `ForeignKeyConstraint`, etc. such that the conditional logic for generating these elements is included within the default DDL emitting process. This system can also be accommodated by a future release of Alembic to support conditional DDL elements within all schema-management systems.

  See also

  New Conditional DDL for Constraints and Indexes

  References: #7631

- [schema] [usecase]

  Added parameter `DropConstraint.if_exists` to the `DropConstraint` construct which result in “IF EXISTS” DDL being added to the DROP statement. This phrase is not accepted by all databases and the operation will fail on a database that does not support it as there is no similarly compatible fallback within the scope of a single DDL statement. Pull request courtesy Mike Fiedler.

  References: #8141

- [schema] [usecase]

  Implemented the DDL event hooks `DDLEvents.before_create()`, `DDLEvents.after_create()`, `DDLEvents.before_drop()`, `DDLEvents.after_drop()` for all `SchemaItem` objects that include a distinct CREATE or DROP step, when that step is invoked as a distinct SQL statement, including for `ForeignKeyConstraint`, `Sequence`, `Index`, and PostgreSQL’s `ENUM`.

  References: #8394

- [schema] [performance]

  Rearchitected the schema reflection API to allow participating dialects to make use of high performing batch queries to reflect the schemas of many tables at once using fewer queries by an order of magnitude. The new performance features are targeted first at the PostgreSQL and Oracle backends, and may be applied to any dialect that makes use of SELECT queries against system catalog tables to reflect tables. The change also includes new API features and behavioral improvements to the `Inspector` object, including consistent, cached behavior of methods like `Inspector.has_table()`, `Inspector.get_table_names()` and new methods `Inspector.has_schema()` and `Inspector.has_index()`.

  See also

  Major Architectural, Performance and API Enhancements for Database Reflection - full background

  References: #4379

- [schema] [bug]

  The warnings that are emitted regarding reflection of indexes or unique constraints, when the `Table.include_columns` parameter is used to exclude columns that are then found to be part of those constraints, have been removed. When the `Table.include_columns` parameter is used it should be expected that the resulting `Table` construct will not include constraints that rely upon omitted columns. This change was made in response to #8100 which repaired `Table.include_columns` in conjunction with foreign key constraints that rely upon omitted columns, where the use case became clear that omitting such constraints should be expected.

  References: #8102

- [schema] [postgresql]

  Added support for comments on `Constraint` objects, including DDL and reflection; the field is added to the base `Constraint` class and corresponding constructors, however PostgreSQL is the only included backend to support the feature right now. See parameters such as `ForeignKeyConstraint.comment`, `UniqueConstraint.comment` or `CheckConstraint.comment`.

  References: #5677

- [schema] [mariadb] [mysql]

  Add support for Partitioning and Sample pages on MySQL and MariaDB reflected options. The options are stored in the table dialect options dictionary, so the following keyword need to be prefixed with `mysql_` or `mariadb_` depending on the backend. Supported options are:

  - `stats_sample_pages`

  - `partition_by`

  - `partitions`

  - `subpartition_by`

  These options are also reflected when loading a table from database, and will populate the table `Table.dialect_options`. Pull request courtesy of Ramon Will.

  References: #4038

### typing

- [typing] [improvement]

  The `TypeEngine.with_variant()` method now returns a copy of the original `TypeEngine` object, rather than wrapping it inside the `Variant` class, which is effectively removed (the import symbol remains for backwards compatibility with code that may be testing for this symbol). While the previous approach maintained in-Python behaviors, maintaining the original type allows for clearer type checking and debugging.

  `TypeEngine.with_variant()` also accepts multiple dialect names per call as well, in particular this is helpful for related backend names such as `"mysql", "mariadb"`.

  See also

  “with_variant()” clones the original TypeEngine rather than changing the type

  References: #6980

### postgresql

- [postgresql] [feature]

  Added a new PostgreSQL `DOMAIN` datatype, which follows the same CREATE TYPE / DROP TYPE behaviors as that of PostgreSQL `ENUM`. Much thanks to David Baumgold for the efforts on this.

  See also

  `DOMAIN`

  References: #7316

- [postgresql] [usecase] [asyncpg]

  Added overridable methods `PGDialect_asyncpg.setup_asyncpg_json_codec` and `PGDialect_asyncpg.setup_asyncpg_jsonb_codec` codec, which handle the required task of registering JSON/JSONB codecs for these datatypes when using asyncpg. The change is that methods are broken out as individual, overridable methods to support third party dialects that need to alter or disable how these particular codecs are set up.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.27

  References: #7284

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  Added literal type rendering for the `ARRAY` and `ARRAY` datatypes. The generic stringify will render using brackets, e.g. `[1, 2, 3]` and the PostgreSQL specific will use the ARRAY literal e.g. `ARRAY[1, 2, 3]`. Multiple dimensions and quoting are also taken into account.

  References: #8138

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  Adds support for PostgreSQL multirange types, introduced in PostgreSQL 14. Support for PostgreSQL ranges and multiranges has now been generalized to the psycopg3, psycopg2 and asyncpg backends, with room for further dialect support, using a backend-agnostic `Range` data object that’s constructor-compatible with the previously used psycopg2 object. See the new documentation for usage patterns.

  In addition, range type handling has been enhanced so that it automatically renders type casts, so that in-place round trips for statements that don’t provide the database with any context don’t require the `cast()` construct to be explicit for the database to know the desired type (discussed at #8540).

  Thanks very much to @zeeeeeb for the pull request implementing and testing the new datatypes and psycopg support.

  See also

  New RANGE / MULTIRANGE support and changes for PostgreSQL backends

  Range and Multirange Types

  References: #7156, #8540

- [postgresql] [usecase]

  The “ping” query emitted when configuring `create_engine.pool_pre_ping` for psycopg, asyncpg and pg8000, but not for psycopg2, has been changed to be an empty query (`;`) instead of `SELECT 1`; additionally, for the asyncpg driver, the unnecessary use of a prepared statement for this query has been fixed. Rationale is to eliminate the need for PostgreSQL to produce a query plan when the ping is emitted. The operation is not currently supported by the `psycopg2` driver which continues to use `SELECT 1`.

  References: #8491

- [postgresql] [change]

  SQLAlchemy now requires PostgreSQL version 9 or greater. Older versions may still work in some limited use cases.

- [postgresql] [change] [mssql]

  The parameter `UUID.as_uuid` of `UUID`, previously specific to the PostgreSQL dialect but now generalized for Core (along with a new backend-agnostic `Uuid` datatype) now defaults to `True`, indicating that Python `UUID` objects are accepted by this datatype by default. Additionally, the SQL Server `UNIQUEIDENTIFIER` datatype has been converted to be a UUID-receiving type; for legacy code that makes use of `UNIQUEIDENTIFIER` using string values, set the `UNIQUEIDENTIFIER.as_uuid` parameter to `False`.

  References: #7225

- [postgresql] [change]

  The `ENUM.name` parameter for the PostgreSQL-specific `ENUM` datatype is now a required keyword argument. The “name” is necessary in any case in order for the `ENUM` to be usable as an error would be raised at SQL/DDL render time if “name” were not present.

- [postgresql] [change]

  In support of new PostgreSQL features including the psycopg3 dialect as well as extended “fast insertmany” support, the system by which typing information for bound parameters is passed to the PostgreSQL database has been redesigned to use inline casts emitted by the SQL compiler, and is now applied to all PostgreSQL dialects. This is in contrast to the previous approach which would rely upon the DBAPI in use to render these casts itself, which in cases such as that of pg8000 and the adapted asyncpg driver, would use the pep-249 `setinputsizes()` method, or with the psycopg2 driver would rely on the driver itself in most cases, with some special exceptions made for ARRAY.

  The new approach now has all PostgreSQL dialects rendering these casts as needed using PostgreSQL double-colon style within the compiler, and the use of `setinputsizes()` is removed for PostgreSQL dialects, as this was not generally part of these DBAPIs in any case (pg8000 being the only exception, which added the method at the request of SQLAlchemy developers).

  Advantages to this approach include per-statement performance, as no second pass over the compiled statement is required at execution time, better support for all DBAPIs, as there is now one consistent system of applying typing information, and improved transparency, as the SQL logging output, as well as the string output of a compiled statement, will show these casts present in the statement directly, whereas previously these casts were not visible in logging output as they would occur after the statement were logged.

- [postgresql] [bug]

  The `Operators.match()` operator now uses `plainto_tsquery()` for PostgreSQL full text search, rather than `to_tsquery()`. The rationale for this change is to provide better cross-compatibility with match on other database backends. Full support for all PostgreSQL full text functions remains available through the use of `func` in conjunction with `Operators.bool_op()` (an improved version of `Operators.op()` for boolean operators).

  See also

  match() operator on PostgreSQL uses plainto_tsquery() rather than to_tsquery()

  References: #7086

- [postgresql] [removed]

  Removed support for multiple deprecated drivers:

  > - pypostgresql for PostgreSQL. This is available as an external driver at https://github.com/PyGreSQL

  > - pygresql for PostgreSQL.

  Please switch to one of the supported drivers or to the external version of the same driver.

  References: #7258

- [postgresql] [dialect]

  Added support for `psycopg` dialect supporting both sync and async execution. This dialect is available under the `postgresql+psycopg` name for both the `create_engine()` and `create_async_engine()` engine-creation functions.

  See also

  Dialect support for psycopg 3 (a.k.a. “psycopg”)

  psycopg

  References: #6842

- [postgresql] [psycopg2]

  Update psycopg2 dialect to use the DBAPI interface to execute two phase transactions. Previously SQL commands were execute to handle this kind of transactions.

  References: #7238

- [postgresql] [schema]

  Introduced the type `JSONPATH` that can be used in cast expressions. This is required by some PostgreSQL dialects when using functions such as `jsonb_path_exists` or `jsonb_path_match` that accept a `jsonpath` as input.

  See also

  JSON Types - PostgreSQL JSON types.

  References: #8216

- [postgresql] [reflection]

  The PostgreSQL dialect now supports reflection of expression based indexes. The reflection is supported both when using `Inspector.get_indexes()` and when reflecting a `Table` using `Table.autoload_with`. Thanks to immerrr and Aidan Kane for the help on this ticket.

  References: #7442

### mysql

- [mysql] [usecase] [mariadb]

  The `ROLLUP` function will now correctly render `WITH ROLLUP` on MySql and MariaDB, allowing the use of group by rollup with these backend.

  References: #8503

- [mysql] [bug]

  Fixed issue in MySQL `Insert.on_duplicate_key_update()` which would render the wrong column name when an expression were used in a VALUES expression. Pull request courtesy Cristian Sabaila.

  This change is also backported to: 1.4.27

  References: #7281

- [mysql] [removed]

  Removed support for the OurSQL driver for MySQL and MariaDB, as this driver does not seem to be maintained.

  References: #7258

### mariadb

- [mariadb] [usecase]

  Added a new execution option `is_delete_using=True`, which is consumed by the ORM when using an ORM-enabled DELETE statement in conjunction with the “fetch” synchronization strategy; this option indicates that the DELETE statement is expected to use multiple tables, which on MariaDB is the DELETE..USING syntax. The option then indicates that RETURNING (newly implemented in SQLAlchemy 2.0 for MariaDB for #7011) should not be used for databases that are known to not support “DELETE..USING..RETURNING” syntax, even though they support “DELETE..USING”, which is MariaDB’s current capability.

  The rationale for this option is that the current workings of ORM-enabled DELETE doesn’t know up front if a DELETE statement is against multiple tables or not until compilation occurs, which is cached in any case, yet it needs to be known so that a SELECT for the to-be-deleted row can be emitted up front. Instead of applying an across-the-board performance penalty for all DELETE statements by proactively checking them all for this relatively unusual SQL pattern, the `is_delete_using=True` execution option is requested via a new exception message that is raised within the compilation step. This exception message is specifically (and only) raised when: the statement is an ORM-enabled DELETE where the “fetch” synchronization strategy has been requested; the backend is MariaDB or other backend with this specific limitation; the statement has been detected within the initial compilation that it would otherwise emit “DELETE..USING..RETURNING”. By applying the execution option, the ORM knows to run a SELECT upfront instead. A similar option is implemented for ORM-enabled UPDATE but there is not currently a backend where it is needed.

  References: #8344

- [mariadb] [usecase]

  Added INSERT..RETURNING and DELETE..RETURNING support for the MariaDB dialect. UPDATE..RETURNING is not yet supported by MariaDB. MariaDB supports INSERT..RETURNING as of 10.5.0 and DELETE..RETURNING as of 10.0.5.

  References: #7011

### sqlite

- [sqlite] [usecase]

  Added new parameter to SQLite for reflection methods called `sqlite_include_internal=True`; when omitted, local tables that start with the prefix `sqlite_`, which per SQLite documentation are noted as “internal schema” tables such as the `sqlite_sequence` table generated to support “AUTOINCREMENT” columns, will not be included in reflection methods that return lists of local objects. This prevents issues for example when using Alembic autogenerate, which previously would consider these SQLite-generated tables as being remove from the model.

  See also

  Reflecting internal schema tables

  References: #8234

- [sqlite] [usecase]

  Added RETURNING support for the SQLite dialect. SQLite supports RETURNING since version 3.35.

  References: #6195

- [sqlite] [usecase] [performance]

  SQLite datetime, date, and time datatypes now use Python standard lib `fromisoformat()` methods in order to parse incoming datetime, date, and time string values. This improves performance vs. the previous regular expression-based approach, and also automatically accommodates for datetime and time formats that contain either a six-digit “microseconds” format or a three-digit “milliseconds” format.

  References: #7029

- [sqlite] [usecase]

  The SQLite dialect now supports UPDATE..FROM syntax, for UPDATE statements that may refer to additional tables within the WHERE criteria of the statement without the need to use subqueries. This syntax is invoked automatically when using the `Update` construct when more than one table or other entity or selectable is used.

  References: #7185

- [sqlite] [performance] [bug]

  The SQLite dialect now defaults to `QueuePool` when a file based database is used. This is set along with setting the `check_same_thread` parameter to `False`. It has been observed that the previous approach of defaulting to `NullPool`, which does not hold onto database connections after they are released, did in fact have a measurable negative performance impact. As always, the pool class is customizable via the `create_engine.poolclass` parameter.

  See also

  The SQLite dialect uses QueuePool for file-based databases

  References: #7490

- [sqlite] [bug]

  Removed the warning that emits from the `Numeric` type about DBAPIs not supporting Decimal values natively. This warning was oriented towards SQLite, which does not have any real way without additional extensions or workarounds of handling precision numeric values more than 15 significant digits as it only uses floating point math to represent numbers. As this is a known and documented limitation in SQLite itself, and not a quirk of the pysqlite driver, there’s no need for SQLAlchemy to warn for this. The change does not otherwise modify how precision numerics are handled. Values can continue to be handled as `Decimal()` or `float()` as configured with the `Numeric`, `Float` , and related datatypes, just without the ability to maintain precision beyond 15 significant digits when using SQLite, unless alternate representations such as strings are used.

  References: #7299

### mssql

- [mssql] [usecase]

  Implemented reflection of the “clustered index” flag `mssql_clustered` for the SQL Server dialect. Pull request courtesy John Lennox.

  References: #8288

- [mssql] [usecase]

  Added support table and column comments on MSSQL when creating a table. Added support for reflecting table comments. Thanks to Daniel Hall for the help in this pull request.

  References: #7844

- [mssql] [bug]

  The `use_setinputsizes` parameter for the `mssql+pyodbc` dialect now defaults to `True`; this is so that non-unicode string comparisons are bound by pyodbc to pyodbc.SQL_VARCHAR rather than pyodbc.SQL_WVARCHAR, allowing indexes against VARCHAR columns to take effect. In order for the `fast_executemany=True` parameter to continue functioning, the `use_setinputsizes` mode now skips the `cursor.setinputsizes()` call specifically when `fast_executemany` is True and the specific method in use is `cursor.executemany()`, which doesn’t support setinputsizes. The change also adds appropriate pyodbc DBAPI typing to values that are typed as `Unicode` or `UnicodeText`, as well as altered the base `JSON` datatype to consider JSON string values as `Unicode` rather than `String`.

  References: #8177

- [mssql] [removed]

  Removed support for the mxodbc driver due to lack of testing support. ODBC users may use the pyodbc dialect which is fully supported.

  References: #7258

### oracle

- [oracle] [feature]

  Add support for the new oracle driver `oracledb`.

  See also

  Dialect support for oracledb

  python-oracledb

  References: #8054

- [oracle] [feature]

  Implemented DDL and reflection support for `FLOAT` datatypes which include an explicit “binary_precision” value. Using the Oracle-specific `FLOAT` datatype, the new parameter `FLOAT.binary_precision` may be specified which will render Oracle’s precision for floating point types directly. This value is interpreted during reflection. Upon reflecting back a `FLOAT` datatype, the datatype returned is one of `DOUBLE_PRECISION` for a `FLOAT` for a precision of 126 (this is also Oracle’s default precision for `FLOAT`), `REAL` for a precision of 63, and `FLOAT` for a custom precision, as per Oracle documentation.

  As part of this change, the generic `Float.precision` value is explicitly rejected when generating DDL for Oracle, as this precision cannot be accurately converted to “binary precision”; instead, an error message encourages the use of `TypeEngine.with_variant()` so that Oracle’s specific form of precision may be chosen exactly. This is a backwards-incompatible change in behavior, as the previous “precision” value was silently ignored for Oracle.

  See also

  New Oracle FLOAT type with binary precision; decimal precision not accepted directly

  References: #5465

- [oracle] [feature]

  Full “RETURNING” support is implemented for the cx_Oracle dialect, covering two individual types of functionality:

  - multi-row RETURNING is implemented, meaning multiple RETURNING rows are now received for DML statements that produce more than one row for RETURNING.

  - ”executemany RETURNING” is also implemented - this allows RETURNING to yield row-per statement when `cursor.executemany()` is used. The implementation of this part of the feature delivers dramatic performance improvements to ORM inserts, in the same way as was added for psycopg2 in the SQLAlchemy 1.4 change ORM Batch inserts with psycopg2 now batch statements with RETURNING in most cases.

  References: #6245

- [oracle] [usecase]

  Oracle will now use FETCH FIRST N ROWS / OFFSET syntax for limit/offset support by default for Oracle 12c and above. This syntax was already available when `Select.fetch()` were used directly, it’s now implied for `Select.limit()` and `Select.offset()` as well.

  References: #8221

- [oracle] [change]

  Materialized views on oracle are now reflected as views. On previous versions of SQLAlchemy the views were returned among the table names, not among the view names. As a side effect of this change they are not reflected by default by `MetaData.reflect()`, unless `views=True` is set. To get a list of materialized views, use the new inspection method `Inspector.get_materialized_view_names()`.

- [oracle] [bug]

  Adjustments made to the BLOB / CLOB / NCLOB datatypes in the cx_Oracle and oracledb dialects, to improve performance based on recommendations from Oracle developers.

  References: #7494

- [oracle] [bug]

  Related to the deprecation for `create_engine.implicit_returning`, the “implicit_returning” feature is now enabled for the Oracle dialect in all cases; previously, the feature would be turned off when an Oracle 8/8i version were detected, however online documentation indicates both versions support the same RETURNING syntax as modern versions.

  References: #6962

- [oracle]

  cx_Oracle 7 is now the minimum version for cx_Oracle.

### misc

- [removed] [sybase]

  Removed the “sybase” internal dialect that was deprecated in previous SQLAlchemy versions. Third party dialect support is available.

  See also

  External Dialects

  References: #7258

- [removed] [firebird]

  Removed the “firebird” internal dialect that was deprecated in previous SQLAlchemy versions. Third party dialect support is available.

  See also

  External Dialects

  References: #7258