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.

probably be one in test_query or test_unicode...)
- fix up test_unitofwork

- went through examples/ and cleaned out excess list() calls

a rollback() before re-raising, so that the stack
trace is preserved from sys.exc_info() before entering
the rollback.  This so that the traceback is preserved
when using coroutine frameworks which may have switched
contexts before the rollback function returns.
[ticket:2703]

labeled columns when apply_labels() is used; this mode
produces a SELECT where each column is labeled as in
<tablename>_<columnname>, to remove column name collisions
for a multiple table select.   The fix is that if two labels
collide when combined with the table name, i.e.
"foo.bar_id" and "foo_bar.id", anonymous aliasing will be
applied to one of the dupes.  This allows the ORM to handle
both columns independently; previously, 0.7
would in some cases silently emit a second SELECT for the
column that was "duped", and in 0.8 an ambiguous column error
would be emitted.   The "keys" applied to the .c. collection
of the select() will also be deduped, so that the "column
being replaced" warning will no longer emit for any select()
that specifies use_labels, though the dupe key will be given
an anonymous label which isn't generally user-friendly.
[ticket:2702]