diff --git a/minerva/redshift.py b/minerva/redshift.py
index 58eb4b2..697107e 100644
--- a/minerva/redshift.py
+++ b/minerva/redshift.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class Redshift:
         if workgroup:
             cli = handler.session.client("redshift-serverless")
             wg  = cli.get_workgroup(workgroupName=workgroup)
-            self.rpus = wg['workgroup']['baseCapacity']
+            self.rpus = wg['workgroup']['maxCapacity'] # provide an upper bound
 
     def query(self, sql):
         q = Query(self, sql)
@@ -107,11 +107,13 @@ class Execute:
     # Block until the SQL has finished running
     def finish(self):
         stat = self.status()
+
         while stat in ['SUBMITTED', 'PICKED', 'STARTED']:
             time.sleep(5)
             stat = self.status()
 
         self.update_values()
+        return self.status_cache
 
     def update_values(self):
         self.status_cache = self.info_cache['Status']
@@ -122,7 +124,6 @@ class Execute:
             # $0.36 / RPU-hour
             self.cost = 0.36 * self.redshift.rpus * self.runtime.seconds / 3600.0
 
-        return self.status_cache
 
 
 class Query(Execute):
@@ -142,10 +143,10 @@ create temp table temp_data as {self.sql};
 unload ('select * from temp_data') to {repr(self.out)}
 iam_role default
 format as {self.DATA_STYLE}
+parallel off
 manifest;
 drop table temp_data;
 """
-        print(query)
         return query
 
 
@@ -156,10 +157,13 @@ drop table temp_data;
         status = self.finish()
 
         if status == "FINISHED":
-            if self.info_cache['ResultRows'] != 0:
-                # Because we're using `UNLOAD`, we get a manifest of the files
-                # that make up our data.
-                manif = self.out + "manifest"
+            # Because we're using `UNLOAD`, we get a manifest of the files
+            # that make up our data.
+            manif = self.out + "manifest"
+
+            # do we even have results? redshift doesn't create manifests when
+            # there are 0 results
+            if list(self.handler.s3.ls(manif)):
                 tmp   = self.handler.s3.download(manif)
                 with open(tmp, "r") as f:
                     js = json.load(f)
@@ -178,7 +182,7 @@ drop table temp_data;
         # if it's not a list, then we've failed
         if type(self.manifest_files()) != type([]):
             raise Exception(f"""Query has status {self.status()} did not complete and
-                            thus has no results""")
+                            thus has no results. Error is {self.info_cache.get('Error', '')}""")
 
         self.temps = [self.handler.s3.download(f) for f in self.manifest_files()]
         #local      = parallel_map(self.handler.s3.download, self.manifest_files())
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 527b841..de6466c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "minerva"
-version = "0.7.3"
+version = "0.7.4"
 description = "Easier access to AWS Athena and Redshift"
 authors = [
   "Ari Brown <ari@airintech.com>",