Kent wrote:
> Any chance SQLAlchemy has a mechanism to switch to or from sysdate vs.
> current_date based on the database dialect (and maybe use_ansi)?
>
> It would be really nice if I could program in sqla not knowing which
> database type I am connected to and still could select the current
> date from the database... can I?
func.now() does do this (well, it returns CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, is
CURRENT_DATE different?). it doesn't take use_ansi into account though
(though that would be an easy patch to the Oracle dialect).
Aside from all that, this is also easy enough to roll yourself:
from sqlalchemy.sql.expression import ColumnElement
from sqlalchemy.ext.compiler import compiles
class current_date(ColumnElement):
type = sa.DateTime()
@compiler.compiles(current_date)
def _compiler_dispatch(element, compiler, **kw):
if compiler.dialect.name == 'oracle':
if not compiler.dialect.use_ansi:
return "sysdate"
else:
return "current_date"
else:
# etc ...
then just say current_date() to get the expression.
you could also throw @compiles onto "sqlalchemy.sql.functions.now" if you
wanted to augment what func.now() returns.
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