for example an exception object made within a test suite can
still repr (error seen in Keystone)

logging, exception, and  ``repr()`` purposes now truncate very large
scalar values within each collection, including an
"N characters truncated"
notation, similar to how the display for large multiple-parameter sets
are themselves truncated.
fixes #2837

:meth:`.Query.distinct` is combined with :meth:`.Query.order_by` such
that columns which are already present will not be added
a second time, even if they are labeled with a different name.
Regardless of this change, the extra columns added to the SQL have
never been returned in the final result, so this change only impacts
the string form of the statement as well as its behavior when used in
a Core execution context.   Additionally, columns are no longer added
when the DISTINCT ON format is used, provided the query is not
wrapped inside a subquery due to joined eager loading.
fixes #3641

statement.  This feature is available by passing the
:paramref:`~.sqlalchemy.sql.expression.update.preserve_parameter_order`
flag either to the core :class:`.Update` construct or alternatively
adding it to the :paramref:`.Query.update.update_args` dictionary at
the ORM-level, also passing the parameters themselves as a list of 2-tuples.
Thanks to Gorka Eguileor for implementation and tests.
adapted from pullreq github:200

added onto the end of a query in some inappropriate situations, such
as when querying from an exists() of a single-inheritance subclass.

fixes #3582

``<function> WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY <criteria>)``, using the
method :class:`.FunctionElement.within_group`.  A series of common
set-aggregate functions with return types derived from the set have
been added. This includes functions like :class:`.percentile_cont`,
:class:`.dense_rank` and others.
fixes #1370
- make sure we use func.name for all _literal_as_binds in functions.py
so we get consistent naming behavior for parameters.

now skip textual label references when copying ORDER BY elements
to the joined-eager-load subquery, as we can't know that these
expressions are compatible with this placement;  either because
they are meant for text(), or because they refer to label names
already stated and aren't bound to a table. fixes #3392