Changelog for Amazon Redshift Driver

v1.3.0 (2026-05-25)

New features:

  • Add REDSHIFT:type metadata on result set schema fields to provide the database’s type name

  • Preserve SRID in GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY columns

  • Ingest GeoArrow arrays as GEOMETRY/GEOGRAPHY (this uses a staging table as these types cannot be directly uploaded)

Fixes:

  • Ingest Arrow strings as VARCHAR(MAX) instead of TEXT

  • Pass credentials to COPY in bulk ingest, when AWS access key/secret key are specified directly

  • Fix GetTableSchema only being usable once per connection

v1.2.1 (2026-03-11)

New features:

  • Improve ingest performance by uploading fewer, larger files

v1.1.0 (2026-01-07)

New features:

  • Support IdP token authentication

  • Support more options for IdP browser authentication

  • Support bind/ingest for Arrow list and struct types (as Redshift SUPER columns)

  • Support GEOMETRY, GEOGRAPHY, HLLSKETCH, and SUPER

v1.0.0 (2025-09-18)

  • Initial release