- Dialects can be queried for the server version (sqlite and mysql only with this commit)

- Mark everything in a test suite as failed when setUpAll fails.
- Added test coverage for Unicode table names in metadata.reflect()
- @testing.exclude() filters out tests by server version
- Applied exclude to the test suite, MySQL 4.1 passes again (no XA or SAVEPOINT)
- Removed MySQL charset-setting pool hook- charset=utf8&use_unicode=0 works just as well.  (Am I nuts?  I'd swear this didn't work before.)
- Finally migrated some old MySQL-tests into the dialect test module
- Corrected 'commit' and 'rollback' logic (and comment) for ancient MySQL versions lacking transactions entirely
- Deprecated the MySQL get_version_info in favor of server_version_info
- Added a big hunk-o-doc for MySQL.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py
index ff2da1165..4e4edaced 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py
@@ -148,6 +148,11 @@ class Dialect(object):
 
         raise NotImplementedError()
 
+    def server_version_info(self, connection):
+        """Return a tuple of the database's version number."""
+
+        raise NotImplementedError()
+
     def reflecttable(self, connection, table, include_columns=None):
         """Load table description from the database.