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impact of these behavioral changes

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

: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

the warning here to all safe_reraise() cases in Python 2.
- Revisiting :ticket:`2696`, first released in 1.0.10, which attempts to
work around Python 2's lack of exception context reporting by emitting
a warning for an exception that was interrupted by a second exception
when attempting to roll back the already-failed transaction; this
issue continues to occur for MySQL backends in conjunction with a
savepoint that gets unexpectedly lost, which then causes a
"no such savepoint" error when the rollback is attempted, obscuring
what the original condition was.

The approach has been generalized to the Core "safe
reraise" function which takes place across the ORM and Core in any
place that a transaction is being rolled back in response to an error
which occurred trying to commit, including the context managers
provided by :class:`.Session` and :class:`.Connection`, and taking
place for operations such as a failure on "RELEASE SAVEPOINT".
Previously, the fix was only in place for a specific path within
the ORM flush/commit process; it now takes place for all transational
context managers as well.
fixes #2696

available mapper options.   This allows a DELETE to proceed
for a joined-table inheritance mapping against the base table only,
while allowing for ON DELETE CASCADE to handle deleting the row
from the subclass tables.
fixes #2349

a base class and a concrete-inherited subclass would raise an error
if those relationships were set up using "backref", while setting up the
identical configuration using relationship() instead with the conflicting
names would succeed, as is allowed in the case of a concrete mapping.
fixes #3630