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refactor(output-datatypes): write down the desired behavior for the various output formats

Open cpcloud opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

We have a lot of issues related to converting execution output to Pandas.

This issue is to track a Ibis-specific specification for how Ibis types map to Pandas types as well as details on edge case handling.

cpcloud avatar Apr 18 '24 17:04 cpcloud

I think the ideal use case would be to have a well-defined behavior for ibis => pyarrow and rely on pyarrow => pandas to specify ibis => pandas expectations. I successfully use this approach in the chDB backend:

  • #8497

kszucs avatar Apr 19 '24 08:04 kszucs