or other variable-length column type with unbounded length
by assigning the token ``"max"`` to the
length attribute of the string.   While using the ``"max"`` token
explicitly is supported by the SQL Server dialect, it isn't part
of the normal contract of the base string types, and instead the
length should just be left as None.   The dialect now assigns the
length to None on reflection of the type so that the type behaves
normally in other contexts.
fixes #3504

options and USING of :ticket:`3455` released in 1.0.6,
to disable the feature for Postgresql versions < 8.2 where the
``reloptions`` column is not provided; this allows Amazon Redshift
to again work as it is based on an 8.0.x version of Postgresql.
Fix courtesy Pete Hollobon.
references #3455

an INSERT of NULL + pyodbc; pyodbc requires a special
object be passed in order to persist NULL.  As the :class:`.VARBINARY`
type is now usually the default for :class:`.LargeBinary` due to
:ticket:`3039`, this issue is partially a regression in 1.0.
The pymssql driver appears to be unaffected.
fixes #3464

- changelog
- versionadded + reflink for new pg storage parameters doc
- pep8ing
- add additional tests to definitely check that the Index object
is created all the way with the opts we want
fixes #3455

features that other objects like :class:`.Index` now do, that
the column expression may be specified as an arbitrary SQL
expression such as :obj:`.cast` or :obj:`.text`.
fixes #3454

psycopg2cffi dialect, in particular that the current 2.7.0 version
does not have native support for the JSONB type.  The version detection
for psycopg2 features has been tuned into a specific sub-version
for psycopg2cffi.  Additionally, test coverage has been enabled
for the full series of psycopg2 features under psycopg2cffi.
fixes #3439