Hi.
I want to have two Table definitions in one MetaData which are the
same except the name of the second one has "SND_" prefix. To avoid
duplication of schema definition I looked at Table.tometadata() source
and created the following function:

def _cloneToSND(table, metadata):
    return Table('SND_' + table.name, metadata, *([c.copy() for c in
table.columns] + \
            [c.copy() for c in table.constraints]))

But calling metadata.create_all() ends with error:

  metadata.create_all(e)
  File "/usr/share/python2.5/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.4.6dev_r4841-
py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/schema.py", line 1582, in create_all
    bind.create(self, checkfirst=checkfirst, tables=tables)
  File "/usr/share/python2.5/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.4.6dev_r4841-
py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 1139, in create
    self._run_visitor(self.dialect.schemagenerator, entity,
connection=connection, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/python2.5/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.4.6dev_r4841-
py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 1168, in _run_visitor
    visitorcallable(self.dialect, conn, **kwargs).traverse(element)
  File "/usr/share/python2.5/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.4.6dev_r4841-
py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/sql/visitors.py", line 75, in traverse
    return self._non_cloned_traversal(obj)
  File "/usr/share/python2.5/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.4.6dev_r4841-
py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/sql/visitors.py", line 134, in
_non_cloned_traversal
    self.traverse_single(target)
  File "/usr/share/python2.5/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.4.6dev_r4841-
py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/sql/visitors.py", line 35, in traverse_single
    return meth(obj, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/python2.5/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.4.6dev_r4841-
py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/sql/compiler.py", line 756, in visit_metadata
    collection = [t for t in metadata.table_iterator(reverse=False,
tables=self.tables) if (not self.checkfirst or not
self.dialect.has_table(self.connection, t.name, schema=t.schema))]
  File "/usr/share/python2.5/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.4.6dev_r4841-
py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/schema.py", line 1456, in table_iterator
    return iter(sort_tables(tables, reverse=reverse))
  File "/usr/share/python2.5/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.4.6dev_r4841-
py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/sql/util.py", line 21, in sort_tables
    vis.traverse(table)
  File "/usr/share/python2.5/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.4.6dev_r4841-
py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/sql/visitors.py", line 75, in traverse
    return self._non_cloned_traversal(obj)
  File "/usr/share/python2.5/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.4.6dev_r4841-
py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/sql/visitors.py", line 134, in
_non_cloned_traversal
    self.traverse_single(target)
  File "/usr/share/python2.5/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.4.6dev_r4841-
py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/sql/visitors.py", line 35, in traverse_single
    return meth(obj, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/python2.5/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.4.6dev_r4841-
py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/sql/util.py", line 15, in visit_foreign_key
    parent_table = fkey.column.table
  File "/usr/share/python2.5/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.4.6dev_r4841-
py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/schema.py", line 788, in column
    "foreign key" % tname)
sqlalchemy.exceptions.NoReferencedTableError: Could not find table
'ObjectType' with which to generate a foreign key


The first table (without SND_ prefix) was created successfully. Any
ideas how to achieve my goal?

Regards,
Artur
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