diff --git a/crates/iceberg/src/scan.rs b/crates/iceberg/src/scan.rs
index 89cc21bbf..1366d9414 100644
--- a/crates/iceberg/src/scan.rs
+++ b/crates/iceberg/src/scan.rs
@@ -364,9 +364,8 @@ impl TableScan {
 
         let manifest_list = self.plan_context.get_manifest_list().await?;
 
-        // get the [`ManifestFile`]s from the [`ManifestList`], filtering out any
-        // whose content type is not Data or whose partitions cannot match this
-        // scan's filter
+        // get the [`ManifestFile`]s from the [`ManifestList`], filtering out
+        // partitions cannot match the scan's filter
         let manifest_file_contexts = self
             .plan_context
             .build_manifest_file_contexts(manifest_list, manifest_entry_ctx_tx)?;
@@ -619,15 +618,22 @@ 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 {
                 let partition_bound_predicate = self.get_partition_filter(manifest_file)?;
 
                 // evaluate the ManifestFile against the partition filter. Skip
@@ -649,7 +655,7 @@ impl PlanContext {
                 }
             }
         } else {
-            for manifest_file in filtered_entries {
+            for manifest_file in entries {
                 let mfc = self.create_manifest_file_context(manifest_file, None, sender.clone());
                 filtered_mfcs.push(Ok(mfc));
             }
diff --git a/crates/integration_tests/testdata/spark/entrypoint.sh b/crates/integration_tests/testdata/spark/entrypoint.sh
index abbcc9332..90db14d0b 100755
--- a/crates/integration_tests/testdata/spark/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/crates/integration_tests/testdata/spark/entrypoint.sh
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
 # under the License.
 #
 
+set -e
+
 start-master.sh -p 7077
 start-worker.sh spark://spark-iceberg:7077
 start-history-server.sh
diff --git a/crates/integration_tests/testdata/spark/provision.py b/crates/integration_tests/testdata/spark/provision.py
index 1d5ffcb85..364e366b4 100755
--- a/crates/integration_tests/testdata/spark/provision.py
+++ b/crates/integration_tests/testdata/spark/provision.py
@@ -18,7 +18,17 @@
 from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
 from pyspark.sql.functions import current_date, date_add, expr
 
-spark = SparkSession.builder.getOrCreate()
+# The configuration is important, otherwise we get many small
+# parquet files with a single row. When a positional delete
+# hits the Parquet file with one row, the parquet file gets
+# dropped instead of having a merge-on-read delete file.
+spark = (
+    SparkSession
+        .builder
+        .config("spark.sql.shuffle.partitions", "1")
+        .config("spark.default.parallelism", "1")
+        .getOrCreate()
+)
 
 spark.sql(
     f"""
diff --git a/crates/integration_tests/tests/read_positional_deletes.rs b/crates/integration_tests/tests/read_positional_deletes.rs
index ebd5ea67f..41ca057a6 100644
--- a/crates/integration_tests/tests/read_positional_deletes.rs
+++ b/crates/integration_tests/tests/read_positional_deletes.rs
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 //! Integration tests for rest catalog.
 
+use iceberg::ErrorKind::FeatureUnsupported;
 use iceberg::{Catalog, TableIdent};
 use iceberg_integration_tests::set_test_fixture;
 
@@ -34,6 +35,20 @@ async fn test_read_table_with_positional_deletes() {
         .await
         .unwrap();
 
-    // 😱 If we don't support positional deletes, we should not be able to plan them
-    println!("{:?}", table.scan().build().unwrap());
+    let scan = table.scan().build().unwrap();
+    println!("{:?}", scan);
+
+    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
+
+    // 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);
 }