would still potentially cause persistence conflicts on the next
transaction, because the instance would not be checked that it
was expired.   This fix will resolve a large class of cases that
erronously cause the "New instance with identity X conflicts with
persistent instance Y" error.
fixes #3677

that when a "polymorphic" entity is used which represents a straight
join of several tables, the statement will ensure that all the
tables within the join are part of what's correlating.
fixes #3662

handled within visit_select(); this attribute was added in the
1.0 series to accommodate the subquery wrapping behavior of
SQL Server and Oracle while also working with positional
column targeting and no longer relying upon "key fallback"
in order to target columns in such a statement.  The IBM DB2
third-party dialect also has this use case, but its implementation
is using regular expressions to rewrite the textual SELECT only
and does not make use of a "wrapped" select at this time.
The logic no longer attempts to reconcile proxy set collections as
this was not deterministic, and instead assumes that the select()
and the wrapper select() match their columns postionally,
at least for the column positions they have in common,
so it is now very simple and safe.  fixes #3657.
- as a side effect of #3657 it was also revealed that the
strategy of calling upon a ResultProxy._getter was not
correctly calling into NoSuchColumnError when an expected
column was not present, and instead returned None up to
loading.instances() to produce NoneType failures; added
a raiseerr argument to _getter() which is called when we
aren't expecting None, fixes #3658.

to not be loaded, if the joined eager load were from a row where the
same entity were present multiple times, some calling for the attribute
to be eagerly loaded and others not.  The logic here is revised to
take in the attribute even though a different loader path has
handled the parent entity already. fixes #3431

primary key that has values for some but not all of the PK fields
would emit a SELECT statement leaking the internal NEVER_SET symbol
into the query, rather than detecting that this object does not have
a searchable primary key and no SELECT should be emitted.
fixes #3647

INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements to both specify their own
WITH clause, as well as for these statements themselves to be
CTE expressions when they include a RETURNING clause.
fixes #2551

:meth:`.Query.distinct` is combined with :meth:`.Query.order_by` such
that columns which are already present will not be added
a second time, even if they are labeled with a different name.
Regardless of this change, the extra columns added to the SQL have
never been returned in the final result, so this change only impacts
the string form of the statement as well as its behavior when used in
a Core execution context.   Additionally, columns are no longer added
when the DISTINCT ON format is used, provided the query is not
wrapped inside a subquery due to joined eager loading.
fixes #3641

- establish make_transient and make_transient_to_detached as special-use,
advanced use only functions
- list all conditions under make_transient() under which an attribute
will not be loaded and establish that make_transient() does not attempt
to load all attributes before detaching the object from its
session, fixes #3640