`to_unicode` variable was created but was not used.

or other variable-length column type with unbounded length
by assigning the token ``"max"`` to the
length attribute of the string.   While using the ``"max"`` token
explicitly is supported by the SQL Server dialect, it isn't part
of the normal contract of the base string types, and instead the
length should just be left as None.   The dialect now assigns the
length to None on reflection of the type so that the type behaves
normally in other contexts.
fixes #3504

up SQLAlchemy's version detection under Python 3 and inadvertently
not using the correct unicode mode for Python 3.  This would cause
issues such as bound variables mis-interpreted as NULL and rows
silently not being returned.
fixes #3491

- add first-class "pytest" runner to setup.py, fixes #3489
- remove references to setuptools Feature and mark that "--without-cextensions"
 is removed, fixes #3500

options and USING of :ticket:`3455` released in 1.0.6,
to disable the feature for Postgresql versions < 8.2 where the
``reloptions`` column is not provided; this allows Amazon Redshift
to again work as it is based on an 8.0.x version of Postgresql.
Fix courtesy Pete Hollobon.
references #3455

may be called against a stale connection without the "connect"
event handler having been called, in the case where the pool
attempted to reconnect after being invalidated and failed; the stale
connection would remain present and would be used on a subsequent
attempt.  This issue has a greater impact in the 1.0 series subsequent
to 1.0.2, as it also delivers a blanked-out ``.info`` dictionary to
the event handler; prior to 1.0.2 the ``.info`` dictionary is still
the previous one.
fixes #3497