diff --git a/crates/iceberg/src/scan.rs b/crates/iceberg/src/scan.rs
index 89cc21bbf..26d362ebe 100644
--- a/crates/iceberg/src/scan.rs
+++ b/crates/iceberg/src/scan.rs
@@ -619,15 +619,22 @@ impl PlanContext {
         manifest_list: Arc<ManifestList>,
         sender: Sender<ManifestEntryContext>,
     ) -> Result<Box<impl Iterator<Item = Result<ManifestFileContext>>>> {
-        let filtered_entries = manifest_list
-            .entries()
+        let entries = manifest_list.entries();
+
+        if entries
             .iter()
-            .filter(|manifest_file| manifest_file.content == ManifestContentType::Data);
+            .any(|e| e.content != ManifestContentType::Data)
+        {
+            return Err(Error::new(
+                ErrorKind::FeatureUnsupported,
+                "Merge-on-read is not yet supported",
+            ));
+        }
 
         // TODO: Ideally we could ditch this intermediate Vec as we return an iterator.
         let mut filtered_mfcs = vec![];
         if self.predicate.is_some() {
-            for manifest_file in filtered_entries {
+            for manifest_file in entries.iter() {
                 let partition_bound_predicate = self.get_partition_filter(manifest_file)?;
 
                 // evaluate the ManifestFile against the partition filter. Skip
@@ -649,7 +656,7 @@ impl PlanContext {
                 }
             }
         } else {
-            for manifest_file in filtered_entries {
+            for manifest_file in entries.iter() {
                 let mfc = self.create_manifest_file_context(manifest_file, None, sender.clone());
                 filtered_mfcs.push(Ok(mfc));
             }
diff --git a/crates/integration_tests/tests/read_positional_deletes.rs b/crates/integration_tests/tests/read_positional_deletes.rs
index 7a32b994b..41ca057a6 100644
--- a/crates/integration_tests/tests/read_positional_deletes.rs
+++ b/crates/integration_tests/tests/read_positional_deletes.rs
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 //! Integration tests for rest catalog.
 
-use futures::TryStreamExt;
+use iceberg::ErrorKind::FeatureUnsupported;
 use iceberg::{Catalog, TableIdent};
 use iceberg_integration_tests::set_test_fixture;
 
@@ -38,12 +38,17 @@ async fn test_read_table_with_positional_deletes() {
     let scan = table.scan().build().unwrap();
     println!("{:?}", scan);
 
-    let batch_stream = scan.to_arrow().await.unwrap();
-    let batches: Vec<_> = batch_stream.try_collect().await.unwrap();
-
-    let num_rows: usize = batches.iter().map(|v| v.num_rows()).sum();
+    assert!(scan
+        .to_arrow()
+        .await
+        .is_err_and(|e| e.kind() == FeatureUnsupported));
 
     // 😱 If we don't support positional deletes, we should fail when we try to read a table that
     // has positional deletes. The table has 12 rows, and 2 are deleted, see provision.py
-    assert_eq!(num_rows, 10);
+
+    // When we get support for it:
+    // let batch_stream = scan.to_arrow().await.unwrap();
+    // let batches: Vec<_> = batch_stream.try_collect().await.is_err();
+    // let num_rows: usize = batches.iter().map(|v| v.num_rows()).sum();
+    // assert_eq!(num_rows, 10);
 }