it for DELETE would fail to target the correct row for DELETE.
Then to compound matters, basic "number of rows matched" checks were
not being performed.  Both issues are fixed, however note that the
"rows matched" check requires so-called "sane multi-row count"
functionality; the DBAPI's executemany() method must count up the
rows matched by individual statements and SQLAlchemy's dialect must
mark this feature as supported, currently applies to some mysql dialects,
psycopg2, sqlite only. fixes #3006
- Enabled "sane multi-row count" checking for the psycopg2 DBAPI, as
this seems to be supported as of psycopg2 2.0.9.

not be created between two classes that are in a joined inheritance
relationship, for those foreign keys that link the subclass back to
the superclass.
fixes #3004

:func:`.attributes.flag_modified` where the change event would not be
propagated if the attribute had been reassigned to itself.
fixes #2997

(e.g. ``x[:] = [...]``) would fail on Py3k.

caused a user-provided "getter" to no longer receive values of ``None``
when fetching scalar values from a target that is non-present.  The
check for None introduced by this change is now moved into the default
getter, so a user-provided getter will also again receive values of
None.
re: #2810

- convert all paramter references in relationship documentation to :paramref:

fully usable within declarative relationship configuration, as its
string classname would not be available in the registry of classnames
at mapper configuration time.   The class now explicitly adds itself
to the class regsitry, and additionally both :class:`.AbstractConcreteBase`
as well as :class:`.ConcreteBase` set themselves up *before* mappers
are configured within the :func:`.configure_mappers` setup, using
the new :meth:`.MapperEvents.before_configured` event. [ticket:2950]

- Added new :meth:`.MapperEvents.before_configured` event which allows
an event at the start of :func:`.configure_mappers`, as well
as ``__declare_first__()`` hook within declarative to complement
``__declare_last__()``.

- modified how after_configured is invoked; we just make a dispatch()
not actually connected to any mapper.  this makes it easier
to also invoke before_configured correctly.

- improved the ComparableEntity fixture to handle collections that are sets.