Randy Zwitch

This package has never been in disrepair, as myself and several other people have had merge access for quite some time. While it _may_ be easy for one of us...

Yes, you generally add the file into its directory. The test suite shows all of the things that need to pass to make sure the dataset loads properly.

Going to close https://github.com/mapd/pymapd/issues/75, since this issue captures the same general behavior to be testing. DATE/TIMESTAMP support to be added...

When this implemented for pygdf, then functionality will work https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/issues/140

I thought we were waiting on the cudf linked issue above, but it's a good question. Let me take a look at the cudf documentation, maybe they fixed it but...

@sglyon This works now, so maybe the issue isn't in the libcudf C++ code like we thought: ```python import pymapd import cudf conn = pymapd.connect(user="mapd", password="HyperInteractive", host="localhost", port= 6274, dbname="mapd")...

@sglyon Unfortunately, not as easy as I expected (you can check out https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/issues/140 if you want to read about the guts of cudf via Arrow), but it looks like it's...

@wamsiv Is this something you can take a crack at fixing? I understand the problem you are highlighting, it's just not immediately obvious to me how to fix it

Possible solution would be to explicitly format strings to some level of precision: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33219633/2394542

#240 is work towards this PR, switching from Travis to Jenkins @mattdlh Jenkins is just set up for linux now? Is there opportunity for testing on Windows (and OSX, if...