Pony ORM Release 0.7.7

In this release we introduce new features and improvements an also fix a number of bugs.

Major features

  • Array type support for PostgreSQL and SQLite
  • isinstance() support in queries
  • Support of queries based on collections: select(x for x in y.items)

Other features

  • Support of Entity.select(**kwargs)
  • Support of SKIP LOCKED option in ‘SELECT … FOR UPDATE’
  • New function make_proxy(obj) to make cros-db_session proxy objects
  • Specify ON DELETE CASCADE/SET NULL in foreign keys
  • Support of LIMIT in SELECT FROM (SELECT …) type of queries
  • Support for negative JSON array indexes in SQLite

Improvements

  • Improved query prefetching: use fewer number of SQL queries
  • Memory optimization: deduplication of values recieved from the database in the same session
  • increase DBAPIProvider.max_params_count value

Bugfixes

  • #405: breaking change with cx_Oracle 7.0: DML RETURNING now returns a list
  • #380: db_session should work with async functions
  • #385: test fails with python3.6
  • #386: release unlocked lock error in SQLite
  • #390: TypeError: writable buffers are not hashable
  • #398: add auto coversion of numpy numeric types
  • #404: GAE local run detection
  • Fix Flask compatibility: add support of LocalProxy object
  • db_session(sql_debug=True) should log SQL commands also during db_session.__exit__()
  • Fix duplicated table join in FROM clause
  • Fix accessing global variables from hybrid methods and properties
  • Fix m2m collection loading bug
  • Fix composite index bug: stackoverflow.com/questions/53147694
  • Fix MyEntity[obj.get_pk()] if pk is composite
  • MySQL group_concat_max_len option set to max of 32bit platforms to avoid truncation
  • Show all attribute options in show(Entity) call
  • For nested db_session retry option should be ignored
  • Fix py_json_unwrap
  • Other minor fixes

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