with conjunctions, e.g.
``None`` :func:`.expression.null` :func:`.expression.true`
:func:`.expression.false`, including consistency in rendering NULL
in conjunctions, "short-circuiting" of :func:`.and_` and :func:`.or_`
expressions which contain boolean constants, and rendering of
boolean constants and expressions as compared to "1" or "0" for backends
that don't feature ``true``/``false`` constants. [ticket:2804]

all known cases is provided by :class:`.DefaultDialect`, has been
tightened to expect ``include_columns`` and ``exclude_columns``
arguments without any kw option, reducing ambiguity - previously
``exclude_columns`` was missing. [ticket:2748]

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]

to rely upon server generated version identifiers, using triggers
or other database-provided versioning features, by passing the value
``False``.  The ORM will use RETURNING when available to immediately
load the new version identifier, else it will emit a second SELECT.
[ticket:2793]
- The ``eager_defaults`` flag of :class:`.Mapper` will now allow the
newly generated default values to be fetched using an inline
RETURNING clause, rather than a second SELECT statement, for backends
that support RETURNING.
- Added a new variant to :meth:`.ValuesBase.returning` called
:meth:`.ValuesBase.return_defaults`; this allows arbitrary columns
to be added to the RETURNING clause of the statement without interfering
with the compilers usual "implicit returning" feature, which is used to
efficiently fetch newly generated primary key values.  For supporting
backends, a dictionary of all fetched values is present at
:attr:`.ResultProxy.returned_defaults`.
- add a glossary entry for RETURNING
- add documentation for version id generation, [ticket:867]

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.

what is strange is how it only occurred in some very specific places under very
particular conditions, perhaps it has to do with whether or not this cursor gets
gc'ed or not.

ideas in general:
  - pypy2.1 w/ sqlite3 is the first DBAPI we're seeing returning
    unicode in cursor.description without being py3k.  add a new on-connect
    check for this, if we get back a u"", just don't do description decoding,
    should be OK for now.
  - the set tests in test_collection were assuming the two sets would be ordered
    the same when it tested pop(), can't really assume that.
  - test_serializer gets worse and worse, pickle is just not really viable here,
    ding out pypy
  - pypy2.1b2 seems to allow cursor.lastrowid to work (or we changed something?)
  - pool._threadconns.current() is a weakref, it can be None
  - another one of those logging.handlers imports

make sure that the DBAPI connection passed to the reset-on-return events/dialect hooks
is also a "fairy", so that dictionaries like "info" are available.  [ticket:2770]
- rework the execution_options system so that the dialect is given the job of making
any immediate adjustments based on a set event.  move the "isolation level" logic to use
this new system.   Also work things out so that even engine-level execution options
can be used for things like isolation level; the dialect attaches a connect-event
handler in this case to handle the task.
- to support this new system as well as further extensibiltiy of execution options
add events engine_connect(), set_connection_execution_options(), set_engine_execution_options()

Conflicts:
	test/profiles.txt
	test/sql/test_selectable.py

workaround