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Changelog
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.. changelog::
:version: 0.4.2
:released: Fri Jan 11 2013
.. change::
:tags: bug, autogenerate
:tickets: 99
Fixed bug where autogenerate would fail if a Column
to be added to a table made use of the ".key" paramter.
.. change::
:tags: bug, sqlite
:tickets: 98
The "implicit" constraint generated by a
type such as Boolean or Enum will not generate an
ALTER statement when run on SQlite, which does not
support ALTER for the purpose of adding/removing
constraints separate from the column def itself.
While SQLite supports adding a CHECK constraint
at the column level, SQLAlchemy would need modification
to support this.
A warning is emitted indicating this
constraint cannot be added in this scenario.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 96
Added a workaround to setup.py to prevent
"NoneType" error from occuring when
"setup.py test" is run.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 96
Added an append_constraint() step to each
condition within
test_autogenerate:AutogenRenderTest.test_render_fk_constraint_kwarg
if the SQLAlchemy version is less than 0.8, as ForeignKeyConstraint
does not auto-append prior to 0.8.
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets: 96
Added a README.unittests with instructions for running the test
suite fully.
.. changelog::
:version: 0.4.1
:released: Sun Dec 9 2012
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 92
Added support for autogenerate render of
ForeignKeyConstraint options onupdate,
ondelete, initially, and deferred.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 94
Autogenerate will include "autoincrement=False"
in the rendered table metadata
if this flag was set to false on the source
:class:`.Column` object.
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets: 66
Explicit error message describing the case
when downgrade --sql is used without specifying
specific start/end versions.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 81
Removed erroneous "emit_events" attribute
from operations.create_table() documentation.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets:
Fixed the minute component in file_template
which returned the month part of the create date.
.. changelog::
:version: 0.4.0
:released: Mon Oct 01 2012
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets: 33
Support for tables in alternate schemas
has been added fully to all operations, as well as to
the autogenerate feature. When using autogenerate,
specifying the flag include_schemas=True to
Environment.configure() will also cause autogenerate
to scan all schemas located by Inspector.get_schema_names(),
which is supported by *some* (but not all)
SQLAlchemy dialects including Postgresql.
*Enormous* thanks to Bruno Binet for a huge effort
in implementing as well as writing tests. .
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets: 70
The command line runner has been organized
into a reusable CommandLine object, so that other
front-ends can re-use the argument parsing built
in.
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets: 43
Added "stdout" option to Config, provides
control over where the "print" output of commands like
"history", "init", "current" etc. are sent.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 71
Fixed the "multidb" template which was badly out
of date. It now generates revision files using
the configuration to determine the different
upgrade_<xyz>() methods needed as well, instead of
needing to hardcode these. Huge thanks to
BryceLohr for doing the heavy lifting here.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 72
Fixed the regexp that was checking for .py files
in the version directory to allow any .py file through.
Previously it was doing some kind of defensive checking,
probably from some early notions of how this directory
works, that was prohibiting various filename patterns
such as those which begin with numbers.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets:
Fixed MySQL rendering for server_default which
didn't work if the server_default was a generated
SQL expression. Courtesy Moriyoshi Koizumi.
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets:
Added support for alteration of MySQL
columns that have AUTO_INCREMENT, as well as enabling
this flag. Courtesy Moriyoshi Koizumi.
.. changelog::
:version: 0.3.6
:released: Wed Aug 15 2012
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets: 27
Added include_symbol option to
EnvironmentContext.configure(),
specifies a callable which will include/exclude tables
in their entirety from the autogeneration process
based on name.
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets: 59
Added year, month, day, hour, minute, second
variables to file_template.
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets:
Added 'primary' to the list of constraint types
recognized for MySQL drop_constraint().
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets:
Added --sql argument to the "revision" command,
for the use case where the "revision_environment"
config option is being used but SQL access isn't
desired.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets:
Repaired create_foreign_key() for
self-referential foreign keys, which weren't working
at all.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 63
'alembic' command reports an informative
error message when the configuration is missing
the 'script_directory' key.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 62
Fixes made to the constraints created/dropped
alongside so-called "schema" types such as
Boolean and Enum. The create/drop constraint logic
does not kick in when using a dialect that doesn't
use constraints for these types, such as postgresql,
even when existing_type is specified to
alter_column(). Additionally, the constraints
are not affected if existing_type is passed but
type\_ is not, i.e. there's no net change
in type.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 66
Improved error message when specifiying
non-ordered revision identifiers to cover
the case when the "higher" rev is None,
improved message overall.
.. changelog::
:version: 0.3.5
:released: Sun Jul 08 2012
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 31
Fixed issue whereby reflected server defaults
wouldn't be quoted correctly; uses repr() now.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 58
Fixed issue whereby when autogenerate would
render create_table() on the upgrade side for a
table that has a Boolean type, an unnecessary
CheckConstraint() would be generated.
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets:
Implemented SQL rendering for
CheckConstraint() within autogenerate upgrade,
including for literal SQL as well as SQL Expression
Language expressions.
.. changelog::
:version: 0.3.4
:released: Sat Jun 02 2012
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets:
Fixed command-line bug introduced by the
"revision_environment" feature.
.. changelog::
:version: 0.3.3
:released: Sat Jun 02 2012
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets:
New config argument
"revision_environment=true", causes env.py to
be run unconditionally when the "revision" command
is run, to support script.py.mako templates with
dependencies on custom "template_args".
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets:
Added "template_args" option to configure()
so that an env.py can add additional arguments
to the template context when running the
"revision" command. This requires either --autogenerate
or the configuration directive "revision_environment=true".
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 44
Added "type" argument to op.drop_constraint(),
and implemented full constraint drop support for
MySQL. CHECK and undefined raise an error.
MySQL needs the constraint type
in order to emit a DROP CONSTRAINT.
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets: 34
Added version_table argument to
EnvironmentContext.configure(), allowing for the
configuration of the version table name.
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets:
Added support for "relative" migration
identifiers, i.e. "alembic upgrade +2",
"alembic downgrade -1". Courtesy
Atsushi Odagiri for this feature.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 49
Fixed bug whereby directories inside of
the template directories, such as __pycache__
on Pypy, would mistakenly be interpreted as
files which are part of the template.
.. changelog::
:version: 0.3.2
:released: Mon Apr 30 2012
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets: 40
Basic support for Oracle added,
courtesy shgoh.
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets:
Added support for UniqueConstraint
in autogenerate, courtesy Atsushi Odagiri
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets:
Fixed support of schema-qualified
ForeignKey target in column alter operations,
courtesy Alexander Kolov.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets:
Fixed bug whereby create_unique_constraint()
would include in the constraint columns that
are added to all Table objects using events,
externally to the generation of the constraint.
.. changelog::
:version: 0.3.1
:released: Sat Apr 07 2012
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 41
bulk_insert() fixes:
1. bulk_insert() operation was
not working most likely since the 0.2 series
when used with an engine.
2. Repaired bulk_insert() to complete when
used against a lower-case-t table and executing
with only one set of parameters, working
around SQLAlchemy bug #2461 in this regard.
3. bulk_insert() uses "inline=True" so that phrases
like RETURNING and such don't get invoked for
single-row bulk inserts.
4. bulk_insert() will check that you're passing
a list of dictionaries in, raises TypeError
if not detected.
.. changelog::
:version: 0.3.0
:released: Thu Apr 05 2012
.. change::
:tags: general
:tickets:
The focus of 0.3 is to clean up
and more fully document the public API of Alembic,
including better accessors on the MigrationContext
and ScriptDirectory objects. Methods that are
not considered to be public on these objects have
been underscored, and methods which should be public
have been cleaned up and documented, including:
MigrationContext.get_current_revision()
ScriptDirectory.iterate_revisions()
ScriptDirectory.get_current_head()
ScriptDirectory.get_heads()
ScriptDirectory.get_base()
ScriptDirectory.generate_revision()
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets:
Added a bit of autogenerate to the
public API in the form of the function
alembic.autogenerate.compare_metadata.
.. changelog::
:version: 0.2.2
:released: Mon Mar 12 2012
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets:
Informative error message when op.XYZ
directives are invoked at module import time.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 35
Fixed inappropriate direct call to
util.err() and therefore sys.exit()
when Config failed to locate the
config file within library usage.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets:
Autogenerate will emit CREATE TABLE
and DROP TABLE directives according to
foreign key dependency order.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets:
implement 'tablename' parameter on
drop_index() as this is needed by some
backends.
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets:
Added execution_options parameter
to op.execute(), will call execution_options()
on the Connection before executing.
The immediate use case here is to allow
access to the new no_parameters option
in SQLAlchemy 0.7.6, which allows
some DBAPIs (psycopg2, MySQLdb) to allow
percent signs straight through without
escaping, thus providing cross-compatible
operation with DBAPI execution and
static script generation.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets:
setup.py won't install argparse if on
Python 2.7/3.2
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets: 29
script_location can be interpreted
by pkg_resources.resource_filename(), if
it is a non-absolute URI that contains
colons. This scheme is the same
one used by Pyramid.
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets:
added missing support for
onupdate/ondelete flags for
ForeignKeyConstraint, courtesy Giacomo Bagnoli
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 30
fixed a regression regarding an autogenerate
error message, as well as various glitches
in the Pylons sample template. The Pylons sample
template requires that you tell it where to
get the Engine from now. courtesy
Marcin Kuzminski
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets:
drop_index() ensures a dummy column
is added when it calls "Index", as SQLAlchemy
0.7.6 will warn on index with no column names.
.. changelog::
:version: 0.2.1
:released: Tue Jan 31 2012
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 26
Fixed the generation of CHECK constraint,
regression from 0.2.0
.. changelog::
:version: 0.2.0
:released: Mon Jan 30 2012
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets: 19
API rearrangement allows everything
Alembic does to be represented by contextual
objects, including EnvironmentContext,
MigrationContext, and Operations. Other
libraries and applications can now use
things like "alembic.op" without relying
upon global configuration variables.
The rearrangement was done such that
existing migrations should be OK,
as long as they use the pattern
of "from alembic import context" and
"from alembic import op", as these
are now contextual objects, not modules.
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets: 24
The naming of revision files can
now be customized to be some combination
of "rev id" and "slug", the latter of which
is based on the revision message.
By default, the pattern "<rev>_<slug>"
is used for new files. New script files
should include the "revision" variable
for this to work, which is part of
the newer script.py.mako scripts.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 25
env.py templates call
connection.close() to better support
programmatic usage of commands; use
NullPool in conjunction with create_engine()
as well so that no connection resources
remain afterwards.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 22
fix the config.main() function to honor
the arguments passed, remove no longer used
"scripts/alembic" as setuptools creates this
for us.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets:
Fixed alteration of column type on
MSSQL to not include the keyword "TYPE".
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets: 23
Can create alembic.config.Config
with no filename, use set_main_option()
to add values. Also added set_section_option()
which will add sections.
.. changelog::
:version: 0.1.1
:released: Wed Jan 04 2012
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets:
Clean up file write operations so that
file handles are closed.
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets:
PyPy is supported.
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets:
Python 2.5 is supported, needs
__future__.with_statement
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets:
Fix autogenerate so that "pass" is
generated between the two comments
if no net migrations were present.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 16
Fix autogenerate bug that prevented
correct reflection of a foreign-key
referenced table in the list of "to remove".
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 17
Fix bug where create_table() didn't
handle self-referential foreign key
correctly
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 18
Default prefix for autogenerate
directives is "op.", matching the
mako templates.
.. change::
:tags: feature
:tickets: 18
Add alembic_module_prefix argument
to configure() to complement
sqlalchemy_module_prefix.
.. change::
:tags: bug
:tickets: 14
fix quotes not being rendered in
ForeignKeConstraint during
autogenerate
.. changelog::
:version: 0.1.0
:released: Wed Nov 30 2011
.. change::
:tags:
:tickets:
Initial release. Status of features:
.. change::
:tags:
:tickets:
Alembic is used in at least one production
environment, but should still be considered
ALPHA LEVEL SOFTWARE as of this release,
particularly in that many features are expected
to be missing / unimplemented. Major API
changes are not anticipated but for the moment
nothing should be assumed.
The author asks that you *please* report all
issues, missing features, workarounds etc.
to the bugtracker, at
https://bitbucket.org/zzzeek/alembic/issues/new .
.. change::
:tags:
:tickets:
Python 3 is supported and has been tested.
.. change::
:tags:
:tickets:
The "Pylons" and "MultiDB" environment templates
have not been directly tested - these should be
considered to be samples to be modified as
needed. Multiple database support itself
is well tested, however.
.. change::
:tags:
:tickets:
Postgresql and MS SQL Server environments
have been tested for several weeks in a production
environment. In particular, some involved workarounds
were implemented to allow fully-automated dropping
of default- or constraint-holding columns with
SQL Server.
.. change::
:tags:
:tickets:
MySQL support has also been implemented to a
basic degree, including MySQL's awkward style
of modifying columns being accommodated.
.. change::
:tags:
:tickets:
Other database environments not included among
those three have *not* been tested, *at all*. This
includes Firebird, Oracle, Sybase. Adding
support for these backends should be
straightforward. Please report all missing/
incorrect behaviors to the bugtracker! Patches
are welcome here but are optional - please just
indicate the exact format expected by the target
database.
.. change::
:tags:
:tickets:
SQLite, as a backend, has almost no support for
schema alterations to existing databases. The author
would strongly recommend that SQLite not be used in
a migration context - just dump your SQLite database
into an intermediary format, then dump it back
into a new schema. For dev environments, the
dev installer should be building the whole DB from
scratch. Or just use Postgresql, which is a much
better database for non-trivial schemas.
Requests for full ALTER support on SQLite should be
reported to SQLite's bug tracker at
http://www.sqlite.org/src/wiki?name=Bug+Reports,
as Alembic will not be implementing the
"rename the table to a temptable then copy the
data into a new table" workaround.
Note that Alembic will at some point offer an
extensible API so that you can implement commands
like this yourself.
.. change::
:tags:
:tickets:
Well-tested directives include add/drop table, add/drop
column, including support for SQLAlchemy "schema"
types which generate additional CHECK
constraints, i.e. Boolean, Enum. Other directives not
included here have *not* been strongly tested
in production, i.e. rename table, etc.
.. change::
:tags:
:tickets:
Both "online" and "offline" migrations, the latter
being generated SQL scripts to hand off to a DBA,
have been strongly production tested against
Postgresql and SQL Server.
.. change::
:tags:
:tickets:
Modify column type, default status, nullable, is
functional and tested across PG, MSSQL, MySQL,
but not yet widely tested in production usage.
.. change::
:tags:
:tickets:
Many migrations are still outright missing, i.e.
create/add sequences, etc. As a workaround,
execute() can be used for those which are missing,
though posting of tickets for new features/missing
behaviors is strongly encouraged.
.. change::
:tags:
:tickets:
Autogenerate feature is implemented and has been
tested, though only a little bit in a production setting.
In particular, detection of type and server
default changes are optional and are off by default;
they can also be customized by a callable.
Both features work but can have surprises particularly
the disparity between BIT/TINYINT and boolean,
which hasn't yet been worked around, as well as
format changes performed by the database on defaults
when it reports back. When enabled, the PG dialect
will execute the two defaults to be compared to
see if they are equivalent. Other backends may
need to do the same thing.
The autogenerate feature only generates
"candidate" commands which must be hand-tailored
in any case, so is still a useful feature and
is safe to use. Please report missing/broken features
of autogenerate! This will be a great feature and
will also improve SQLAlchemy's reflection services.
.. change::
:tags:
:tickets:
Support for non-ASCII table, column and constraint
names is mostly nonexistent. This is also a
straightforward feature add as SQLAlchemy itself
supports unicode identifiers; Alembic itself will
likely need fixes to logging, column identification
by key, etc. for full support here.
