On Friday 20 June 2008 17:38:25 Michael Bayer wrote: > On Jun 19, 2008, at 5:57 PM, Martijn Faassen wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I just noticed on the trunk that on sessionmaker(), autocommit > > defaults > > to False, but autocommit defaults to True when you use > > create_session. autoflush is also True for sessionmaker, but for > > create_session, it's False. Finally autoexpire is True for > > sessionmaker, but False for create_session. > > > > Is this intentional? > > create_session() is the "original" session creation function, which > creates a session with none of the "newer" things added on, i.e. > autocommit=False, autoexpire, autoflush. This is for backwards > compatibility reasons, both within the unit test suite as well as > lots of examples, user scripts, etc. The unit tests in > particular were built around the notion of an "unadulterated" > session that isn't doing things implicitly. The Session's > behavior has changed over the course of SQLA's lifespan from being > a relatively "dumb" container that doesn't make any decisions > whatsoever to one which does what the large majority of use cases > would prefer; this is a product of us being around for awhile and > watching lots of people use it for a couple of years. > > I just noticed that the 0.5 docs still have a prominent > "create_session()" section, which I'm assuming is how you came > across it. I think the solution here at the least would be to > remove prominent advertisement of "create_session()". I'm not sure > yet about deprecation/non-publicizing it. I still think its a > useful function for ad-hoc creation of sessions with no extra > behavior but this may very well be just my skewed view of it.
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