Today the ADBC Drivers Contributors released an updated driver for Amazon Redshift, version 1.3.0, available immediately via dbc. To update, just dbc install redshift to get the latest version.

Version 1.3.0 has several improvements and bug fixes, including:

• Support for ingesting GeoArrow data as GEOMETRY/GEOGRAPHY columns
• Inferring/preserving SRID in querying/ingesting geo data
• Fix GetTableSchema only being callable once per connection
• Pass through credentials when executing COPY in bulk ingest
• Map Arrow strings to VARCHAR(MAX) in bulk ingest instead of TEXT

For more details, see the full changelog. To learn more about how to use the driver, check out the documentation and quickstarts.

Bug reports and feature requests are welcome through GitHub Issues in the adbc-drivers/redshift repository. You can also start a Discussion on GitHub or join the Columnar Community Slack.