instead of relying upon various ``quote=True`` flags being passed around,
these flags are converted into rich string objects with quoting information
included at the point at which they are passed to common schema constructs
like :class:`.Table`, :class:`.Column`, etc.   This solves the issue
of various methods that don't correctly honor the "quote" flag such
as :meth:`.Engine.has_table` and related methods.  The :class:`.quoted_name`
object is a string subclass that can also be used explicitly if needed;
the object will hold onto the quoting preferences passed and will
also bypass the "name normalization" performed by dialects that
standardize on uppercase symbols, such as Oracle, Firebird and DB2.
The upshot is that the "uppercase" backends can now work with force-quoted
names, such as lowercase-quoted names and new reserved words.
[ticket:2812]

courtesy Hajime Nakagami.

the import structure of many core modules.
``sqlalchemy.schema`` and ``sqlalchemy.types``
remain in the top-level package, but are now just lists of names
that pull from within ``sqlalchemy.sql``.  Their implementations
are now broken out among ``sqlalchemy.sql.type_api``, ``sqlalchemy.sql.sqltypes``,
``sqlalchemy.sql.schema`` and ``sqlalchemy.sql.ddl``, the last of which was
moved from ``sqlalchemy.engine``.  ``sqlalchemy.sql.expression`` is also
a namespace now which pulls implementations mostly from ``sqlalchemy.sql.elements``,
``sqlalchemy.sql.selectable``, and ``sqlalchemy.sql.dml``.
Most of the "factory" functions
used to create SQL expression objects have been moved to classmethods
or constructors, which are exposed in ``sqlalchemy.sql.expression``
using a programmatic system.  Care has been taken such that all the
original import namespaces remain intact and there should be no impact
on any existing applications.   The rationale here was to break out these
very large modules into smaller ones, provide more manageable lists
of function names, to greatly reduce "import cycles" and clarify the
up-front importing of names, and to remove the need for redundant
functions and documentation throughout the expression package.

Hanno Schlichting.  Also in 0.8.3, 0.7.11.
[ticket:2791]

Inspection API already supports reflection of table
indexes information and those also include unique
constraints (at least for PostgreSQL and MySQL).
But it could be actually useful to distinguish between
indexes and plain unique constraints (though both are
implemented in the same way internally in RDBMS).

This change adds a new method to Inspection API - get_unique_constraints()
and implements it for SQLite, PostgreSQL and MySQL dialects.

Makes gaerdbms for App Engine use local MySQL server when running in dev_appserver2

- use an isinstance() check, concerned a TypeError might be indiscriminate

Currently, one can specify the prefix length for an index
column using 'mysql_length' keyword argument when creating
an Index instance. But in case of composite indexes the
prefix length value is applied only to the last column.

Extend the existing API in way so that 'mysql_length' argument
value can be either:
    - an integer specifying the same prefix length value
      for each column of an index
    - a (column_name --> integer value) mapping specifying
      the prefix length value for each column of an index
      separately

Fixes issue #2704.