Passing a plain string expression to :meth:`.Session.query` is deprecated,
as all string coercions were removed in :ticket:`4481` and this one should
have been included. The :func:`.literal_column` function may be used to
produce a textual column expression.
Note this changeset is in the 1.3 branch only. The 1.4 (currently master)
branch will already have removed this behavior.