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authorGord Thompson <gord@gordthompson.com>2020-02-22 06:44:05 -0700
committerGord Thompson <gord@gordthompson.com>2020-03-24 12:15:02 -0600
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Implement autocommit isolation level for pysqlite
Fixes: #5164 Change-Id: I190b9de552dfed9f2a33babf82e42465ef09c82a
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diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/sqlite/base.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/sqlite/base.py
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--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/sqlite/base.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/sqlite/base.py
@@ -168,8 +168,8 @@ work when using the pysqlite driver.
.. _sqlite_isolation_level:
-Transaction Isolation Level
-----------------------------
+Transaction Isolation Level / Autocommit
+----------------------------------------
SQLite supports "transaction isolation" in a non-standard way, along two
axes. One is that of the
@@ -185,6 +185,15 @@ and ``"READ UNCOMMITTED"`` corresponding to a value of 0 and 1, respectively.
SQLite defaults to ``SERIALIZABLE``, however its behavior is impacted by
the pysqlite driver's default behavior.
+When using the pysqlite driver, the ``"AUTOCOMMIT"`` isolation level is also
+available, which will alter the pysqlite connection using the ``.isolation_level``
+attribute on the DBAPI connection and set it to None for the duration
+of the setting.
+
+.. versionadded:: 1.3.16 added support for SQLite AUTOCOMMIT isolation level
+ when using the pysqlite / sqlite3 SQLite driver.
+
+
The other axis along which SQLite's transactional locking is impacted is
via the nature of the ``BEGIN`` statement used. The three varieties
are "deferred", "immediate", and "exclusive", as described at