resolves #3757

(cherry picked from commit cf7bfb79847266148f6add22120479d287a259ab)

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/orm/strategy_options.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/orm/strategy_options.py
index 7e75db8e049dc56ed918eb3e4cf61ec173c97130..1d9b92294bf0357c07b9dae8add1d2ce2a97141f 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/orm/strategy_options.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/orm/strategy_options.py
@@ -1110,6 +1110,9 @@ def load_only(loadopt, *attrs):
                     Load(Address).load_only("email_address")
                 )
 
+     .. note:: This method will still load a :class:`_schema.Column` even
+        if the column property is defined with ``deferred=True``
+        for the :func:`.column_property` function.
 
     .. versionadded:: 0.9.0