On Oct 2, 2012, at 4:29 PM, George Sakkis wrote:

> I had the impression that the Session’s unit of work figures out
> automatically the potential object dependencies and makes sure that
> the insertion order is consistent to a topological sort but apparently
> I misunderstood. I posted https://gist.github.com/3822855 as an
> example.
> 
> In the first case (object_lists = [authors, books]), first a bunch of
> Authors is committed and then a bunch of Books. As expected this
> always succeeds. The next two cases though where authors and books are
> commited at once may or may not succeed. Why it doesn't use the
> topological sort of the tables and why it is not deterministic?

on a quick glance I see no usage of relationship().  The topological sort is 
based on the relationship() paths built between mappers, not the foreign keys.


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