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Trouble with Polars streaming

3 posts from 2 people2d activeFading, +0 this week

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GitHub issuespola-rs/polars · etiennebacherOct 13

Streaming engine doesn't error on mismatched length when the input data has one row

...Reproducible example ### Log output ### Issue description The streaming engine doesn't error when I try to add a column that doesn't have the same length as the existing data. The in-memory engine errors. This discrepancy only occurs when the data has one row (e.g. all three...

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GitHub issuespola-rs/polars · etiennebacherOct 13

Mismatch of output type of `list.slice()` with all nulls between in-memory and streaming engine

### Checks - [x] I have checked that this issue has not already been reported. - [x] I have confirmed this bug exists on the [latest version](https://pypi.org/project/polars/) of Polars. ### Reproducible example ### Log output ### Issue description In the example above,...

GitHub issuespola-rs/polars · dancsiOct 6

`min_by`/`max_by`/`sort_by` with a scalar `by`: in-memory engine raises, streaming broadcasts

### Checks - [x] I have checked that this issue has not already been reported. - [x] I have confirmed this bug exists on the [latest version](https://pypi.org/project/polars/) of Polars. ### Reproducible example ### Log output ### Issue description When the `by` of...

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Evidence

3 posts from 2 people in 1 place, about 2 a week over 8 days. Mostly on pola-rs/polars. Tools named alongside: PyPI.

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How it was grouped

Posts about Polars with no known issue, sharing the word "streaming". First post Oct 6, 2026, latest Oct 13, 2026. Corroborated: 3 or more posts from 2 or more people or places. Method

Other Polars problems

Polars upgrades break working setups

23 posts from 16 people on GitHub issues.

Polars users keep filing bugs

Top post: "Consider upgrading the brotli crate (CVE-2026-111497)", one of 22 posts from 15 people on GitHub issues.

Trouble with Polars column

Top post: "Compare lists in one column to the first n elements of another column in Python Polars lazyframes, where n is", one of 20 posts from 16 people on GitHub issues, Stack Overflow.

Trouble with Polars parquet

Top post: "`is_in` with more than 100 values does not skip Parquet row groups between the values", one of 7 posts from 7 people on GitHub issues.

Trouble with Polars unique

Top post: "Streaming engine: multi-column `.unique()` in `group_by().agg()` much slower than in-memory", one of 7 posts from 4 people on GitHub issues.

Trouble with Polars join

Top post: "Coalescing full join on Int32-vs-Int64 keys with `unique` incorrect", one of 6 posts from 6 people on GitHub issues.

Trouble with Polars instead

Top post: "Series.to_list() panics on out-of-range datetimes instead of raising an error", one of 6 posts from 6 people on GitHub issues.

Trouble with Polars group

Top post: "Datetime out-of-range in `group_by_dynamic` streaming engine", one of 4 posts from 3 people on GitHub issues.

Bad data slips through Polars unnoticed

3 posts from 3 people on GitHub issues, Reddit.

Polars runs out of memory

3 posts from 3 people on GitHub issues.

Trouble with Polars read

Top post: "`read_database` raises `ImportError` with SQLAlchemy 2.1 when `greenlet` is not installed", one of 3 posts from 3 people on GitHub issues.

Polars error messages are cryptic

3 posts from 2 people on GitHub issues.

History

Momentum went from steady to fading.

Oct 20, 2026

Momentum went from rising to steady.

Oct 19, 2026

Corroborated: 3 or more posts from 2 or more people or places.

Oct 15, 2026

Momentum went from fading to rising.

Oct 15, 2026

Momentum went from new to fading.

Oct 13, 2026

Momentum went from fading to new.

Oct 7, 2026

First seen with 1 post; the top post now: "`min_by`/`max_by`/`sort_by` with a scalar `by`: in-memory engine raises, streaming broadcasts".

Sep 25, 2026