On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:10:07 -0500, Michael Bayer <mike...@zzzcomputing.com> wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Faheem Mitha wrote: >> I'm writing code (see below) to drop and add back foreign key >> constraints to a db table. Incidentally, this code is not working >> (the function just hangs) so I may have made some kind of syntax >> error. Anyway, I was wondering if there was some way to accomplish >> this in a more "high- level" way using the sqla ORM. The tables in >> question were created using the ORM, so the ORM knows about them, >> and, at least in theory should be able to manipulate them. > The ORM operates at a higher level than that of the underlying > details of the database and has no awareness of schema generation. > You're probably referring to the SQL and schema expression language > which is a separate component of the library. > For comprehensive support of ALTER constructs, see the Migrate project > at http://code.google.com/p/sqlalchemy-migrate/ . Hi Michael, Thanks very much for the suggestion. The question is where the migrate project supports on the fly schema modification as I describe. I'll take a look. Regards, Faheem. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
