pydata/pandas — pull request #8973 by artemyk (2014-12-03 01:21:26+00:00)
Title: ENH: Infer dtype from non-nulls when pushing to SQL

This infers dtype from non-null values for insertion into SQL database. See #8778 . I had to alter @tiagoantao test a bit.

Like @tiagoantao, I skipped writing tests for legacy MySQL. Support for this will be removed soon, right?

As a side note, `lib.infer_dtype` throws an exception for categorical data -- probably shouldn't happen, right?

@jorisvandenbossche
@jahfet
@tiagoantao