diff --git a/src/catalog/Cargo.toml b/src/catalog/Cargo.toml
index c367b7e91d..c859e599d1 100644
--- a/src/catalog/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/catalog/Cargo.toml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ metrics.workspace = true
 moka = { version = "0.11", features = ["future"] }
 parking_lot = "0.12"
 regex.workspace = true
-serde = "1.0"
+serde.workspace = true
 serde_json = "1.0"
 session = { workspace = true }
 snafu = { version = "0.7", features = ["backtraces"] }
diff --git a/src/common/meta/src/key/table_info.rs b/src/common/meta/src/key/table_info.rs
index a86b007cb3..a3969c5d4e 100644
--- a/src/common/meta/src/key/table_info.rs
+++ b/src/common/meta/src/key/table_info.rs
@@ -161,6 +161,13 @@ mod tests {
     use crate::kv_backend::KvBackend;
     use crate::rpc::store::PutRequest;
 
+    #[test]
+    fn test_deserialization_compatibility() {
+        let s = r#"{"version":1,"table_info":{"ident":{"table_id":8714,"version":0},"name":"go_gc_duration_seconds","desc":"Created on insertion","catalog_name":"e87lehzy63d4cloud_docs_test","schema_name":"public","meta":{"schema":{"column_schemas":[{"name":"instance","data_type":{"String":null},"is_nullable":true,"is_time_index":false,"default_constraint":null,"metadata":{}},{"name":"job","data_type":{"String":null},"is_nullable":true,"is_time_index":false,"default_constraint":null,"metadata":{}},{"name":"quantile","data_type":{"String":null},"is_nullable":true,"is_time_index":false,"default_constraint":null,"metadata":{}},{"name":"greptime_timestamp","data_type":{"Timestamp":{"Millisecond":null}},"is_nullable":false,"is_time_index":true,"default_constraint":null,"metadata":{"greptime:time_index":"true"}},{"name":"greptime_value","data_type":{"Float64":{}},"is_nullable":true,"is_time_index":false,"default_constraint":null,"metadata":{}}],"timestamp_index":3,"version":0},"primary_key_indices":[0,1,2],"value_indices":[],"engine":"mito","next_column_id":5,"region_numbers":[],"engine_options":{},"options":{"write_buffer_size":null,"ttl":null,"extra_options":{}},"created_on":"1970-01-01T00:00:00Z"},"table_type":"Base"}}"#;
+        let v = TableInfoValue::try_from_raw_value(s.as_bytes().to_vec()).unwrap();
+        assert!(v.table_info.meta.partition_key_indices.is_empty());
+    }
+
     #[tokio::test]
     async fn test_table_info_manager() {
         let backend = Arc::new(MemoryKvBackend::default());
diff --git a/src/common/recordbatch/Cargo.toml b/src/common/recordbatch/Cargo.toml
index a1d6dd6950..bf46b9b435 100644
--- a/src/common/recordbatch/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/common/recordbatch/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ datafusion.workspace = true
 datatypes = { workspace = true }
 futures.workspace = true
 paste = "1.0"
-serde = "1.0"
+serde.workspace = true
 snafu = { version = "0.7", features = ["backtraces"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/src/datanode/Cargo.toml b/src/datanode/Cargo.toml
index 63ca53612a..312ff13cfd 100644
--- a/src/datanode/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/datanode/Cargo.toml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ pin-project = "1.0"
 prost.workspace = true
 query = { workspace = true }
 secrecy = { version = "0.8", features = ["serde", "alloc"] }
-serde = "1.0"
+serde.workspace = true
 serde_json = "1.0"
 servers = { workspace = true }
 session = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/src/frontend/Cargo.toml b/src/frontend/Cargo.toml
index 142b81cb80..cb2380a463 100644
--- a/src/frontend/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/frontend/Cargo.toml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ prost.workspace = true
 query = { workspace = true }
 regex.workspace = true
 script = { workspace = true, features = ["python"], optional = true }
-serde = "1.0"
+serde.workspace = true
 serde_json = "1.0"
 servers = { workspace = true }
 session = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/src/meta-srv/Cargo.toml b/src/meta-srv/Cargo.toml
index d239c8c3e4..d55c100547 100644
--- a/src/meta-srv/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/meta-srv/Cargo.toml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ parking_lot = "0.12"
 prost.workspace = true
 rand.workspace = true
 regex.workspace = true
-serde = "1.0"
+serde.workspace = true
 serde_json = "1.0"
 servers = { workspace = true }
 snafu.workspace = true
diff --git a/src/table/Cargo.toml b/src/table/Cargo.toml
index 153ff8c41c..f934a1d963 100644
--- a/src/table/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/table/Cargo.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ futures.workspace = true
 humantime = "2.1"
 humantime-serde = "1.1"
 paste = "1.0"
-serde = "1.0.136"
+serde.workspace = true
 snafu = { version = "0.7", features = ["backtraces"] }
 store-api = { workspace = true }
 tokio.workspace = true
diff --git a/src/table/src/metadata.rs b/src/table/src/metadata.rs
index 3c8ae3106d..07f43162a8 100644
--- a/src/table/src/metadata.rs
+++ b/src/table/src/metadata.rs
@@ -520,6 +520,7 @@ pub struct RawTableMeta {
     pub engine_options: HashMap<String, String>,
     pub options: TableOptions,
     pub created_on: DateTime<Utc>,
+    #[serde(default)]
     pub partition_key_indices: Vec<usize>,
 }