Well, I spoke too soon :( What is the mistake in the following sample code which causes the COMMITs to be emitted? Setting autocommit to either True or False emits the same SQL. I think this is a case of staring at the same code too long causing brain damage- thanks for your patience and help!
from sqlalchemy.engine import create_engine from sqlalchemy.orm.session import sessionmaker from sqlalchemy.orm import scoped_session from sqlalchemy.schema import DDL,MetaData,Table engine = create_engine('postgresql://localhost/test',echo=True) session = scoped_session(sessionmaker(bind=engine)) metadata = MetaData() metadata.bind = engine Table('test1',metadata) Table('test2',metadata) metadata.create_all() 2011-01-26 18:27:48,284 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine.0x...6cd0 select version() 2011-01-26 18:27:48,284 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine.0x...6cd0 {} 2011-01-26 18:27:48,286 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine.0x...6cd0 select current_schema() 2011-01-26 18:27:48,286 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine.0x...6cd0 {} 2011-01-26 18:27:48,288 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine.0x...6cd0 select relname from pg_class c join pg_namespace n on n.oid=c.relnamespace where n.nspname=current_schema() and lower(relname)=%(name)s 2011-01-26 18:27:48,288 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine.0x...6cd0 {'name': u'test1'} 2011-01-26 18:27:48,290 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine.0x...6cd0 select relname from pg_class c join pg_namespace n on n.oid=c.relnamespace where n.nspname=current_schema() and lower(relname)=%(name)s 2011-01-26 18:27:48,290 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine.0x...6cd0 {'name': u'test2'} 2011-01-26 18:27:48,291 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine.0x...6cd0 CREATE TABLE test1 ( ) 2011-01-26 18:27:48,291 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine.0x...6cd0 {} 2011-01-26 18:27:48,292 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine.0x...6cd0 COMMIT 2011-01-26 18:27:48,293 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine.0x...6cd0 CREATE TABLE test2 ( ) 2011-01-26 18:27:48,293 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine.0x...6cd0 {} 2011-01-26 18:27:48,294 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine.0x...6cd0 COMMIT -- 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.