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Changelog
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.. changelog::
    :version: 0.6.0

    .. change::
      :tags: misc

      Source repository has been moved from Mercurial to Git.

    .. change::
      :tags: bug

      Repaired autogenerate rendering of ForeignKeyConstraint
      to include use_alter argument, if present.

    .. change::
      :tags: feature
      :pullreq: 35

      Added ``-r`` argument to ``alembic history`` command,
      allows specification of ``[start]:[end]`` to view
      a slice of history.  Accepts revision numbers, symbols
      "base", "head", a new symbol "current" representing the
      current migration, as well as relative ranges for one
      side at a time (i.e. ``-r-5:head``, ``-rcurrent:+3``).
      Courtesy Atsushi Odagiri for this feature.

    .. change::
      :tags: feature
      :pullreq: 34
      :tickets: 55

      Source base is now in-place for Python 2.6 through
      3.3, without the need for 2to3.   Support for Python 2.5
      and below has been dropped.   Huge thanks to
      Hong Minhee for all the effort on this!

.. changelog::
    :version: 0.5.0
    :released: Thu Apr 4 2013

    .. note::

      Alembic 0.5.0 now requires at least
      version 0.7.3 of SQLAlchemy to run properly.
      Support for 0.6 has been dropped.

    .. change::
        :tags: feature
        :tickets: 76
        :pullreq: 24

      Added ``version_table_schema`` argument
      to :meth:`.EnvironmentContext.configure`,
      complements the ``version_table`` argument to
      set an optional remote schema for the version
      table.  Courtesy Christian Blume.

    .. change::
        :tags: bug, postgresql
        :tickets: 32

      Fixed format of RENAME for table that includes
      schema with Postgresql; the schema name shouldn't
      be in the "TO" field.

    .. change::
        :tags: feature
        :tickets: 90

      Added ``output_encoding`` option to
      :meth:`.EnvironmentContext.configure`,
      used with ``--sql`` mode to apply an encoding
      to the output stream.

    .. change::
        :tags: feature
        :tickets: 93

      Added :meth:`.Operations.create_primary_key`
      operation, will genenerate an ADD CONSTRAINT
      for a primary key.

    .. change::
        :tags: bug, mssql
        :tickets: 109

      Fixed bug whereby double quoting would be applied
      to target column name during an ``sp_rename``
      operation.

    .. change::
        :tags: bug, sqlite, mysql
        :tickets: 112

      transactional_ddl flag for SQLite, MySQL dialects
      set to False.  MySQL doesn't support it,
      SQLite does but current pysqlite driver does not.

    .. change::
        :tags: feature
        :pullreq: 30
        :tickets: 115

      upgrade and downgrade commands will list the
      first line of the docstring out next to the
      version number.  Courtesy Hong Minhee.

    .. change::
        :tags: feature
        :pullreq: 28

      Added --head-only option to "alembic current",
      will print current version plus the symbol
      "(head)" if this version is the head or not.
      Courtesy Charles-Axel Dein.

    .. change::
        :tags: bug
        :tickets: 110

      Autogenerate will render additional table keyword
      arguments like "mysql_engine" and others within
      op.create_table().

    .. change::
        :tags: feature
        :tickets: 108

      The rendering of any construct during autogenerate
      can be customized, in particular to allow special rendering
      for user-defined column, constraint subclasses, using new
      ``render_item`` argument to
      :meth:`.EnvironmentContext.configure`.

    .. change::
        :tags: bug

      Fixed bug whereby create_index()
      would include in the constraint columns that
      are added to all Table objects using events,
      externally to the generation of the constraint.
      This is the same issue that was fixed for unique
      constraints in version 0.3.2.

    .. change::
        :tags: bug
        :pullreq: 27

      Worked around a backwards-incompatible regression in Python3.3
      regarding argparse; running "alembic" with no arguments
      now yields an informative error in py3.3 as with all previous versions.
      Courtesy Andrey Antukh.

    .. change::
        :tags: change

      SQLAlchemy 0.6 is no longer supported by Alembic - minimum version is 0.7.3,
      full support is as of 0.7.9.

    .. change::
        :tags: bug
        :tickets: 104

      A host of argument name changes within migration
      operations for consistency.  Keyword arguments
      will continue to work on the old name for backwards compatibility,
      however required positional arguments will not:

        :meth:`.Operations.alter_column` - ``name`` -> ``new_column_name`` - old
        name will work for backwards compatibility.

        :meth:`.Operations.create_index` - ``tablename`` -> ``table_name`` -
        argument is positional.

        :meth:`.Operations.drop_index` - ``tablename`` -> ``table_name`` - old
        name will work for backwards compatibility.

        :meth:`.Operations.drop_constraint` - ``tablename`` -> ``table_name`` -
        argument is positional.

        :meth:`.Operations.drop_constraint` - ``type`` -> ``type_`` - old
        name will work for backwards compatibility

.. 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.