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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Allow passing parameters into `to_pandas` call","articleBody":"When creating a `Connection`, currently it's possible to configure some aspects of pandas / arrow, such as `_use_arrow_native_complex_types` and `_use_arrow_native_timestamps`, but `_convert_arrow_table` uses a hardcoded  type mapper that's impossible to change:\n\nhttps://github.com/databricks/databricks-sql-python/blob/0947b9aa194d37198fa0b05147f50e4682a5643f/src/databricks/sql/client.py#L1349-L1362\n\nSimilarly, there's no way to pass other parameters to the `to_pandas` call here:\n\nhttps://github.com/databricks/databricks-sql-python/blob/0947b9aa194d37198fa0b05147f50e4682a5643f/src/databricks/sql/client.py#L1366-L1370\n\nPlease consider extending the connection parameters to add more flexibility.\n\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/j-bennet","@type":"Person","name":"j-bennet"},"datePublished":"2025-05-29T23:26:18.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/578/databricks-sql-python/issues/578"}