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Feature request: to_pandas()/to_arrow()

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
mysql, pandas, python
Domain
data, databases

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. First inspect how query results expose column names and data types, then define a performant Pandas or PyArrow conversion API and its expected type-preservation behavior before identifying tests for the requested feature.

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Description

feature-request

Hi, is there an easy+performant way to convert the result of a query into a Pandas or PyArrow dataframe while keeping the column names and data types?

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