From 1a9bcf30431ac97642eb149292eb089e2d847fb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brad Hurley <bradh@us.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 22:50:42 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] updating documentation with optional connection
 parameters

---
 README.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 796720a..2618b1a 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ Forked from the `Vertica dialect for sqlalchemy using vertica-python <https://py
     # for vertica-python connection
     sa.create_engine('vertica+vertica_python://user:pwd@host:port/database')
 
+    # for vertica-python connection with optional parameters
+    sa.create_engine('vertica+vertica_python://user:pwd@host:port/database',
+                     connect_args={"connection_timeout": 5})
+
+Reference `vertica-python <https://github.com/uber/vertica-python>`_ for additional optional connection parameters
+
 Installation
 ------------
 

From ebf60483f330c4c080960d78530c0ca1d00fc906 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brad Hurley <bradh@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 16:59:55 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] adding missing vertica data types: Long Varchar and Long
 Varbinary

---
 sqlalchemy_vertica/base.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sqlalchemy_vertica/base.py b/sqlalchemy_vertica/base.py
index b039a86..c9cf19b 100644
--- a/sqlalchemy_vertica/base.py
+++ b/sqlalchemy_vertica/base.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql.base import PGDialect, PGDDLCompiler
 from sqlalchemy.engine import reflection
 from sqlalchemy.types import INTEGER, BIGINT, SMALLINT, VARCHAR, CHAR, \
-    NUMERIC, FLOAT, REAL, DATE, DATETIME, BOOLEAN, BLOB, TIMESTAMP, TIME
+    NUMERIC, FLOAT, REAL, DATE, DATETIME, BOOLEAN, BLOB, TIMESTAMP, TIME, TEXT
 
 ischema_names = {
     'INT': INTEGER,
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
     'CHAR': CHAR,
     'VARCHAR': VARCHAR,
     'VARCHAR2': VARCHAR,
+    'LONG VARCHAR': TEXT,
     'TEXT': VARCHAR,
     'NUMERIC': NUMERIC,
     'DECIMAL': NUMERIC,
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@
     'SMALLDATETIME': DATETIME,
     'BINARY': BLOB,
     'VARBINARY': BLOB,
+    'LONG VARBINARY': BLOB,
     'RAW': BLOB,
     'BYTEA': BYTEA,
     'BOOLEAN': BOOLEAN,