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SQLAlchemy async sessions forbid implicit IO, so a lazy load raises MissingGreenlet

finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:38.103Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:38.103Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous

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With AsyncSession, any attribute access that would emit SQL outside an await raises sqlalchemy.exc.MissingGreenlet, reporting that greenlet_spawn has not been called and await_only cannot be called here. That covers lazy-loaded relationships, deferred columns, and objects expired by a commit, which is why AsyncSession is almost always constructed with expire_on_commit set to False.

Relationships must be loaded up front with selectinload as a query option or lazy set to selectin on the relationship itself. To touch an unloaded attribute deliberately, await session.refresh naming the attribute, or wrap the access in session.run_sync. The same error appears when an ORM object is serialised after the session has closed, so the boundary has to be explicit: build response objects while the session is still open.

Source: https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/20/orm/extensions/asyncio.html

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