[Discuss] SQLAlchemy Has Annoyances

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

SQLAlchemy Has Annoyances. It wants me to define a custom class for each 
table it touches. Yes, there are ways to do this dynamically but it 
still requires I hand it at least a dummy class for each table. And, 
there is no way to free that when a table is dropped, one has to drop 
all mappings using clear_mappers(), which loops through every single one.

I was once at a Apple Developers' Conference--a *way* long time ago--and 
Iw ent to a session on debugging. At the beginning they put a slide 
saying that a well written program should be able to run for hours--even 
days!--without crashing. Seemed both radical and obvious.

In a similar vein, I have assumed that a quality database will let me 
create and drop tables indefinitely without a worry but for boredom, and 
silly me I thought *I* could create and delete tables indefinitely if 
that seemed a good design decision. Yet sqlalchemy doesn't seem capable 
of this, they want to be restarted?!

-kb, the Kent who is annoyed.