TST: Test pivot with categorical data

[mroeschke]

closes #8860
closes #8731
closes #9534

Looks like the examples in these issues pass in the master branch. Added test to confirm.

[jreback]

@mroeschke thanks!

can you see if you can figure out what issues solved these and list here.

If they are in 0.19.2 or 0.20, then we want to add these issues to the current whatsnew.

[jorisvandenbossche]

Cool!
It seems they were already solved in 0.19.0

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[mroeschke]

Looks like #11371 may have helped address these issues back in 0.17.1, but I am not finding any recent PRs fixing these issues.

[jreback]

thanks!