method, and its interaction with result-row processing, now allows
the columns passed to the method to be positionally matched with the
result columns in the statement, rather than matching on name alone.
The advantage to this includes that when linking a textual SQL statement
to an ORM or Core table model, no system of labeling or de-duping of
common column names needs to occur, which also means there's no need
to worry about how label names match to ORM columns and so-forth.  In
addition, the :class:`.ResultProxy` has been further enhanced to
map column and string keys to a row with greater precision in some
cases.  fixes #3501
- reorganize the initialization of ResultMetaData for readability
and complexity; use the name "cursor_description", define the
task of "merging" cursor_description with compiled column information
as its own function, and also define "name extraction" as a separate task.
- fully change the name we use in the "ambiguous column" error to be the
actual name that was ambiguous, modify the C ext also

to be very slow.  this now has the effect of producing "conditional" unicode
conversion for the Oracle backend, as it still returns NVARCHAR etc. as unicode
[ticket:2911]
- add new "conditional" functionality to unicode processors; the C-level
function now uses PyUnicode_Check() as a fast alternative to the isinstance()
check in Python

any supported CPython 2 or 3 environment. [ticket:2161]