is currently being supported in addition to nose, and will likely
be preferred to nose going forward.   The nose plugin system used
by SQLAlchemy has been split out so that it works under pytest as
well.  There are no plans to drop support for nose at the moment
and we hope that the test suite itself can continue to remain as
agnostic of testing platform as possible.  See the file
README.unittests.rst for updated information on running tests
with pytest.

The test plugin system has also been enhanced to support running
tests against mutiple database URLs at once, by specifying the ``--db``
and/or ``--dburi`` flags multiple times.  This does not run the entire test
suite for each database, but instead allows test cases that are specific
to certain backends make use of that backend as the test is run.
When using pytest as the test runner, the system will also run
specific test suites multiple times, once for each database, particularly
those tests within the "dialect suite".   The plan is that the enhanced
system will also be used by Alembic, and allow Alembic to run
migration operation tests against multiple backends in one run, including
third-party backends not included within Alembic itself.
Third party dialects and extensions are also encouraged to standardize
on SQLAlchemy's test suite as a basis; see the file README.dialects.rst
for background on building out from SQLAlchemy's test platform.

SQLite allows column types that aren't technically understood in sqlite
by using 'data affinity', which is an algorithm for converting column
types in to some sort of useful type that can be stored and retrieved
from the db. Unfortunatly, this breaks reflection since we (previously)
expected a sqlite db to reflect column types that we permit in the
`ischema_names` for that dialect.

This patch changes the logic for 'unknown' column types during
reflection to instead run through SQLite's data affinity algorithm, and
assigns appropriate types from that.

It also expands the matching for column type to include column types
with spaces (strongly discouraged but allowed by sqlite) and also
completely empty column types (in which case the NullType is assigned,
which sqlite will treat as a Blob - or rather, Blob is treated as
NullType). These changes mean that SQLite will never raise an error for
an unknown type during reflection - there will always be some 'useful'
type returned, which follows the spirit of SQLite (accomodation before
sanity!).

applied to :class:`.Constraint` and :class:`.Index` objects.  Based
on a recipe in the wiki, the new feature uses schema-events to set up
names as various schema objects are associated with each other.  The
events then expose a configuration system through a new argument
:paramref:`.MetaData.naming_convention`.  This system allows production
of both simple and custom naming schemes for constraints and indexes
on a per-:class:`.MetaData` basis.  [ticket:2923]

commit 7e65e52c086652de3dd3303c723f98f09af54db8
Author: Mike Bayer <mike_mp@zzzcomputing.com>
Date:   Sat Feb 1 15:09:04 2014 -0500

    - first pass at new naming approach

reflection now updates the PKC in place.
- support the use case of the empty PrimaryKeyConstraint in order to specify
constraint options; the columns marked as primary_key=True will now be gathered
into the columns collection, rather than being ignored. [ticket:2910]
- add validation such that column specification should only take place
in the PrimaryKeyConstraint directly, or by using primary_key=True flags;
if both are present, they have to match exactly, otherwise the condition is
assumed to be ambiguous, and a warning is emitted; the old behavior of
using the PKC columns only is maintained.

parameters are now available on the :meth:`.MetaData.reflect`
method.
- starting to use paramref and need newer paramlinks version.

- remove informix, maxdb, access symbols from tests etc.

- don't use locals()