On Nov 23, 2011, at 6:50 PM, Andrew Buza wrote:

> 
> 
> On Nov 21, 11:47 am, Michael Bayer <mike...@zzzcomputing.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I can tell you that there are two trac tickets regarding this functionality, 
>> and this patch in particular has a @compiles recipe that does the basic idea:
>> 
>> http://www.sqlalchemy.org/trac/attachment/ticket/1944/enhance2.py
>> 
>> The various patches that need to be reconclied/tested are at:
>> 
>> http://www.sqlalchemy.org/trac/ticket/1944http://www.sqlalchemy.org/trac/ticket/2166
>> 
>> A key thing holding back the entire feature being built in is that Oracle 
>> has similar functionality but implements it entirely differently.   This is 
>> a common issue Oracle introduces by doing things in a totally nonstandard 
>> way (like CONNECT BY...).
>> 
>> That said, the straight string or @compiles approach will allow this to 
>> function now in a rudimental way.  @compiles is documented at:
>> 
>> http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/core/compiler.html
> 
> Thanks! Good to know this will likely be supported at some point. For
> now I'll probably use a straight string, but I'll take a look at
> @compiles and the patch mentioned in your other message.

yeah the feature is now committed to the tip, so just get the latest .gz from 
the download page and it should be good to go.

docs:  http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/core/tutorial.html#multiple-table-updates


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