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Uwe L. Korn commented on ARROW-2510: ------------------------------------ [~fjetter] I cannot reproduce the behaviour I expect that you are describing. The following code succeeds on master: {code} import pandas as pd import pyarrow as pa import pyarrow.parquet as pq df = pd.DataFrame({'a': ['str']}) df['a'] = df['a'].astype('category') pq.write_metadata(pa.Table.from_pandas(df).schema, '_common_metadata') t = pq.read_table('_common_metadata') t.to_pandas(categories=['a']) {code} > [Python] Segmentation fault when converting empty column as categorical > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-2510 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2510 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Bug > Components: C++, Python > Reporter: Florian Jetter > Assignee: Uwe L. Korn > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 0.10.0 > > > When converting an empty column to categorical in pandas I get a segmentation > fault -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)