Context
Parent issue: #736
BinaryTest is deleted even though Athena supports VARBINARY.
The remaining gap may involve bind encoding, literal rendering, reflection, or DBAPI result conversion.
Scope
- Run the SQLAlchemy binary compliance tests against Athena engine v3.
- Fix binary bind, literal, reflection, or result conversion behavior that belongs in the dialect.
- Re-enable supported binary tests.
- Gate only engine limitations that cannot be addressed by the dialect.
Acceptance criteria
- Supported
BinaryTest nodes pass against Athena.
- Unit tests cover converter or compiler changes without AWS where possible.
- Existing bytes and VARBINARY behavior remains backward compatible.
just lint passes.
- Athena tests are limited to binary nodes and run with
-n 1.
Context
Parent issue: #736
BinaryTestis deleted even though Athena supportsVARBINARY.The remaining gap may involve bind encoding, literal rendering, reflection, or DBAPI result conversion.
Scope
Acceptance criteria
BinaryTestnodes pass against Athena.just lintpasses.-n 1.