diff --git a/test/expected/pinecone_zero_vector_insert.out b/test/expected/pinecone_zero_vector_insert.out
index 63509d21..f1f818ea 100644
--- a/test/expected/pinecone_zero_vector_insert.out
+++ b/test/expected/pinecone_zero_vector_insert.out
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 -- SETUP
 -- suppress output
 \o /dev/null
-NOTICE:  Mock table created
 delete from pinecone_mock;
 -- logging level
 SET client_min_messages = 'notice';
@@ -36,6 +35,16 @@ VALUES ('https://api.pinecone.io/indexes', 'POST', $${
                 }
         }
 }$$);
+-- mock describe index stats
+INSERT INTO pinecone_mock (url_prefix, method, response)
+VALUES ('https://fakehost/describe_index_stats', 'GET', '{"namespaces":{},"dimension":3,"indexFullness":0,"totalVectorCount":0}');
+INSERT INTO t (id, val) VALUES (2, '[0,0,0]');
+-- create index after insering 0 vector - Throws an error
+CREATE INDEX i2 ON t USING pinecone (val) WITH (spec = '{"serverless":{"cloud":"aws","region":"us-west-2"}}');
+ERROR:  Invalid vector: zero vector
+HINT:  Pinecone insists that dense vectors cannot be zero in all dimensions. I don't know why they do this to you even when your metric isn't cosine.
+-- Truncate the table to remove the values for creating an index successfully
+TRUNCATE TABLE t;
 -- create index
 CREATE INDEX i2 ON t USING pinecone (val) WITH (spec = '{"serverless":{"cloud":"aws","region":"us-west-2"}}');
 INSERT INTO pinecone_mock (url_prefix, method, response)
@@ -49,18 +58,6 @@ VALUES ('https://fakehost/vectors/upsert',
         }', 
         '{"upsertedCount":1}'
 );
-INSERT INTO pinecone_mock (url_prefix, method, response)
-VALUES ('https://fakehost/vectors/upsert',
-'{ "vectors":	[
-                {
- 			"id":	"000000000002",
- 			"values":	[0, 0, 0],
- 			"metadata":	{
- 			}
- 		}]
-        }', 
-        'ERROR'
-);
 INSERT INTO t (id, val) VALUES (1, '[100,1,1]');
 INSERT INTO t (id, val) VALUES (2, '[0,0,0]');
 ERROR:  Invalid vector: zero vector
diff --git a/test/sql/pinecone_zero_vector_insert.sql b/test/sql/pinecone_zero_vector_insert.sql
index 25c301f9..4bbd61c1 100644
--- a/test/sql/pinecone_zero_vector_insert.sql
+++ b/test/sql/pinecone_zero_vector_insert.sql
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 -- SETUP
 -- suppress output
 \o /dev/null
-SELECT pinecone_create_mock_table();
 delete from pinecone_mock;
 -- logging level
 SET client_min_messages = 'notice';
@@ -10,8 +9,6 @@ SET pinecone.vectors_per_request = 1;
 SET pinecone.requests_per_batch = 1;
 -- disable flat scan to force use of the index
 SET enable_seqscan = off;
--- Testing database is responsible for initializing the mock table with 
--- SELECT pinecone_create_mock_table(); 
 -- CREATE TABLE
 DROP TABLE IF EXISTS t;
 CREATE TABLE t (id int, val vector(3));