- MySQL catches exception on "describe" and reports as NoSuchTableError

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index b19142f92..bfcf195c1 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 - the "delete" cascade will load in all child objects, if they were not
 loaded already.  this can be turned off (i.e. the old behavior) by setting 
 passive_deletes=True on a relation().
+- MySQL catches exception on "describe" and reports as NoSuchTableError
 
 0.3.0
 - General:
diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/databases/mysql.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/databases/mysql.py
index 86b74c364..671fbaf41 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/databases/mysql.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/databases/mysql.py
@@ -314,7 +314,10 @@ class MySQLDialect(ansisql.ANSIDialect):
         if not case_sensitive:
             table.name = table.name.lower()
             table.metadata.tables[table.name]= table
-        c = connection.execute("describe " + table.name, {})
+        try:
+            c = connection.execute("describe " + table.name, {})
+        except:
+            raise exceptions.NoSuchTableError(table.name)
         found_table = False
         while True:
             row = c.fetchone()