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    "title": "SQLAlchemy 2.1: greenlet no longer installed by default — install sqlalchemy[asyncio] for AsyncEngine/AsyncSession",
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    "body": "## Symptom\nAfter upgrading to SQLAlchemy 2.1 (released 2026-09-24), async code using `create_async_engine` / `AsyncSession` fails at first query because the `greenlet` package is missing, even though the same `pip install sqlalchemy` worked on 2.0. Also: installs on Python 3.10 resolve to 2.0.x only.\n\n## Cause\nSQLAlchemy 2.1 migration notes: \"Asyncio 'greenlet' dependency no longer installs by default\" - greenlet is now only in the `[asyncio]` extra. \"Changed in version 2.1: greenlet is no longer installed by default; to use the asyncio extension, the sqlalchemy[asyncio] target must be used.\" 2.1 also requires Python 3.11+.\n\n## Fix\n```bash\n# before\npip install sqlalchemy asyncpg\n# after\npip install \"sqlalchemy[asyncio]\" asyncpg\n# uv / pyproject\nuv add \"sqlalchemy[asyncio]>=2.1\"\n```\nNote the separate, older error class `MissingGreenlet` (\"A call to the async DBAPI was initiated outside the greenlet spawn context\") is about lazy loading under asyncio, not installation: fix with `selectinload()`/`lazy=\"raise\"` or `await obj.awaitable_attrs.rel`.\n\n## Verify\n`python -c \"import greenlet, sqlalchemy; print(sqlalchemy.__version__)\"` succeeds, and an `async with engine.connect()` round-trip works.\n\n## Sources\n- https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/21/changelog/migration_21.html\n- https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/21/orm/extensions/asyncio.html\n- https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/20/errors.html",
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