diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 79de523..935812d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -39,3 +39,5 @@
 /sqlite-autoconf*
 /cmds.txt
 /sqlite-with-parquet
+/testcase-out.txt
+/testcase-err.txt
diff --git a/parquet-generator/parquets.py b/parquet-generator/parquets.py
index b164e4e..af12105 100644
--- a/parquet-generator/parquets.py
+++ b/parquet-generator/parquets.py
@@ -79,7 +79,9 @@ def write_unsupported_parquets():
         pa.null(),
         pa.uint8(),
         pa.uint16(),
-        pa.uint32(),
+        # per https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-436, I think
+        # Parquet v1.0 can't serialize UINT32
+        #pa.uint32(),
         pa.uint64(),
         # pa.float16() <-- not supported by us, but also not by pyarrow
         # TODO: list_, struct, dict
diff --git a/parquet-generator/unsupported-uint32.parquet b/parquet-generator/unsupported-uint32.parquet
deleted file mode 100644
index b9dc0b1..0000000
Binary files a/parquet-generator/unsupported-uint32.parquet and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/tests/test-unsupported b/tests/test-unsupported
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..1e538df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test-unsupported
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+# Verify that all the unsupported.*parquet files result in an error when creating the virtual table,
+# but don't segfault.
+
+load_unsupported() {
+  file=${1:?must provide file to load}
+  basename=$(basename "$file")
+  cat <<EOF
+.echo on
+.load parquet/libparquet
+.testcase $basename
+.bail on
+CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE test USING parquet('$file');
+SELECT 123;
+EOF
+}
+
+main() {
+  root=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/..
+  root=$(readlink -f "$root")
+  cd "$root"
+
+  unsupported_files=$(find . -type f -name 'unsupported*.parquet')
+  while read -r unsupported; do
+    echo "Testing: $unsupported"
+    "$root"/sqlite/sqlite3 -init <(load_unsupported "$unsupported") < /dev/null > /dev/null 2> testcase-err.txt
+    # We expect the 'SELECT 123' command to NOT have been run
+    if grep -q 123 testcase-out.txt; then
+      echo "...FAILED" >&2
+      exit 1
+    fi
+  done < <(echo "$unsupported_files")
+}
+
+main "$@"