Hello I'm trying to understand compilation and working through the compiler tutorial: https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/core/compiler.html
I was hoping for some clarification : 1) What is the difference between starting your method with visit_XXX instead of compile_XX? 2) self.cmd is used in the init of AlterColumn but I can't see where it is used in the visit_alter_column method. 3) What is the purpose of the ... in the visit_alter_column method? 4) What is the example usage for AlterColumn? I tried this: from sqlalchemy import create_engine from sqlalchemy import Table, Column, Integer, String, MetaData engine = create_engine('postgresql://***:***@localhost:5432/postgres') conn = engine.connect() metadata = MetaData() users = Table('users', metadata, Column('id', Integer), Column('name', String), Column('fullname', String), ) metadata.create_all(engine) users.AlterColumn(users.c.name, 'type int') without success. 5) How would I create an AddColumn function? Something like this perhaps? class AddColumn(DDLElement): def __init__(self, column, column_type): self.column = column self.column_type = column_type @compiles(AddColumn) def visit_add_column(element, compiler, **kw): return "ALTER TABLE %s ADD COLUMN %s ..." % (element.table.name, element.column.name) Regards Soumaya -- SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ To post example code, please provide an MCVE: Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable Example. See http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve for a full description. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sqlalchemy/0b3e9438-7631-46d8-bd3a-8f835a8c11c1n%40googlegroups.com.