Randy Zwitch

Thanks. Windows is the one I'm more concerned with, since we've got plenty of OSX users to report when things don't work

Unfortunately, this looks like an error in the Arrow method. If you try `load_table(..., method='columnar')`, does it work?

```python data = , preserve_index = False def build_row_desc(data, preserve_index=False): if not isinstance(data, pd.DataFrame): # Once https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1576 is complete # we can support pa.Table here too raise TypeError("Create table is...

Yeah, it feels like to me the better route would be to deprecate the other methods, making people always go through `load_table`. Trade-off between breaking things and cleaning up the...

As people run into different issues, we can add them to the list above to keep track.

Thanks for reporting @abeduplaa , we're in the middle of auditing all the functionality in pymapd, and we'll hopefully be able to fix this in the near future

@andrewseidl I think this one is for you. Sounds like on the backend, Arrow still goes through an endpoint that wants an Int32 even for an Int16

This same error happens for `TEXT ENCODING NONE` also, says it's looking for `TMapDException: TMapDException(error_msg='Exception: Expected int32 type')`

@omveda Here's the issue I was talking about, it'd be great if you cleaned this up and submitted a PR

Agree that we could be more aggressive in checking on what environment the user is in; right now, we rely on people reading the docs or docstrings, which is a...