On Feb 26, 2009, at 8:21 AM, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > What happens if you do not call expunge on it, but pickle the object > in a > cache, load it later and then merge it? the state of the newly unpickled object, that is the current value of its mapped attributes, would be merged with the persistent version in the session. merge() will load the object from the database into an in-session, persistent instance before merging the external state. because your unpickled instance never actually enters the session, conflicts with its previous session or an already present in-session object are nicely avoided. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---