with the psycopg2 dialect in conjunction with non-ascii values
and ``native_enum=False`` would fail to decode return results properly.
This stemmed from when the PG :class:`.postgresql.ENUM` type used
to be a standalone type without a "non native" option.
fixes #3354
- corrected the assertsql comparison rule to expect a non-ascii
SQL string

:ticket:`3184` would cause index operations to fail on Postgresql
versions 8.4 and earlier.  The enhancements are now
disabled when using an older version of Postgresql.
fixes #3343

DROP TYPE instruction when a plain ``table.drop()`` is called,
assuming the object is not associated directly with a
:class:`.MetaData` object.   In order to accomodate the use case of
an enumerated type shared between multiple tables, the type should
be associated directly with the :class:`.MetaData` object; in this
case the type will only be created at the metadata level, or if
created directly.  The rules for create/drop of
Postgresql enumerated types have been highly reworked in general.
fixes #3319

The pg8000 dialect now supports the setting of the PostgreSQL parameter
client_encoding from create_engine().

return type is not strictly assumed to be boolean; it now
returns a :class:`.Boolean` subclass called :class:`.MatchType`.
The type will still produce boolean behavior when used in Python
expressions, however the dialect can override its behavior at
result time.  In the case of MySQL, while the MATCH operator
is typically used in a boolean context within an expression,
if one actually queries for the value of a match expression, a
floating point value is returned; this value is not compatible
with SQLAlchemy's C-based boolean processor, so MySQL's result-set
behavior now follows that of the :class:`.Float` type.
A new operator object ``notmatch_op`` is also added to better allow
dialects to define the negation of a match operation.
fixes #3263

``pg_catalog.pg_table_is_visible(c.oid)``, rather than testing
for an exact schema match, when the schema name is None; this
so that the method will also illustrate that temporary tables
are present.  Note that this is a behavioral change, as Postgresql
allows a non-temporary table to silently overwrite an existing
temporary table of the same name, so this changes the behavior
of ``checkfirst`` in that unusual scenario.
fixes #3264