dropDefaultValue

Removes the database default value for a column.

Run dropDefaultValue

To run this Change Type, follow these steps:

  1. Add the Change Type to your changeset, as shown in the examples on this page.

  2. Specify any required attributes. Use the table on this page to see which ones your database requires.

  3. Deploy your changeset by running the update command:liquibase update

Available attributes

Name

Description

Required for

Supports

Since

catalogName

Name of the catalog

all

3.0

columnDataType

Data type of the column.

To help make scripts database-independent, Liquibase automatically converts the following generic data types to the correct database implementation: BIGINT, BLOB, BOOLEAN, CHAR, CLOB, CURRENCY, DATE, DATETIME, DECIMAL, DOUBLE, FLOAT, INT, MEDIUMINT, NCHAR, NUMBER, NVARCHAR, SMALLINT, TIME, TIMESTAMP, TINYINT, UUID, VARCHAR, XML.

Also, specifying a java.sql.Types.* type is converted to the correct type as well. For example:

java.sql.Types.TIMESTAMP

java.sql.Types.VARCHAR(255)

For Snowflake, Liquibase also implements BINARY, TIME, and TIMESTAMP_NTZ.

For Databricks, Liquibase also implements ARRAY<INT> and ARRAY<STRING>, MAP, and STRUCT variable types.

Note: To specify a complex Databricks type like ARRAY<STRING> in an XML changelog, you must specify the escape sequences &lt; and &gt; rather than < and >. See createTable.

For more information, see Liquibase Data Type Handling.

informix

all

columnName

Name of the column to drop the default value from

all

all

schemaName

Name of the schema

all

tableName

Name of the table containing the column to drop the default value from

all

all

Database support

Database

Notes

Auto Rollback

DB2/LUW

Supported

No

DB2/z

Supported

No

Derby

Supported

No

Firebird

Supported

No

Google BigQuery

Not Supported

No

H2

Supported

No

HyperSQL

Supported

No

INGRES

Supported

No

Informix

Supported

No

MariaDB

Supported

No

MySQL

Supported

No

Oracle

Supported

No

PostgreSQL

Supported

No

Snowflake

Supported

No

SQL Server

Supported

No

SQLite

Not Supported

No

Sybase

Supported

No

Sybase Anywhere

Supported

No

dropDefaultValue examples

--liquibase formatted sql
--changeset liquibase-docs:dropDefaultValue-example
ALTER TABLE cat.person
ALTER id
DROP DEFAULT;