DBAL-84 - Fix VARCHARs being silently set to 255 chars when larger than Maxlength. Now they are converted to Text/CLOB fields automatically. Refactored the VARCHAR code considerably.

[DBAL-42] Add support to reverse engineer Comments from MySQL, PostgreSQL and ORacle into Doctrine\DBAL\Schema\Column instances and added comment comparison into Comparator.

DBAL-91 - Fix auto-generation of asset names (foreign keys and indexes) which could lead to exceptions due to auto-quoting of PostgreSQL for example. Now hashing the names with crc32+dechex

DBAL-37 - Fix PostgreSQL Platform not supporting changes in Autoicnrement during ALTER TABLE generation

Revertd partially the support to DBAL\Transaction, it was wrong. Fixed implementation of ORM\EntityTransaction and fixed tests.

[2.0][DDC-92] Fixed. Patch provided by Christian Heinrich. [DDC-274] Started some method renaming. [DDC-142] Fixed (join column names and discriminator column names dont support quoting) [DDC-258] Fixed.

[2.0] DDC-169 - Further refactorings, schema max identifier length is now used for asset generation. Added platform-wide test for unique index generation with create table.

[2.0] DDC-169 - Finished ALTER Table TableDiff refactoring, adding code to handle index and FK changes. Added a general functional test for alter table against all platforms.

[2.0] DDC-169 - Changed AbstractPlatform and AbstractSchemaManager and children to accept Sequences in their create and get sql methods.

[2.0] DDC-169 - Changed AbstractPlatform and AbstractSchemaManager and children to accept Table, Index and ForeignKey instances for the respective create*() methods.

[2.0] Added functionality to convert a Doctrine 1 schema to Doctrine 2 to help users with upgrading. Lots of other small bug fixes and changes.

[2.0] Test coverage for OFFSET AND LIMIT sql generation for all platforms and Query class with setFirstResult() and setMaxResult()

divided some assertions in various cohesive methods and renamed method names to conform to agile documentation (affects #2316)

[2.0] Started to implement proxy object handling. Introduced a configuration switch for partial objects (allowPartialObjects) that defaults to TRUE. Setting to FALSE enables proxying and lazy-loading.