dropNotNullConstraint

Makes a column nullable.

Run dropNotNullConstraint

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, mariadb, mssql, mysql

all

columnName

Name of the column to drop the constraint from

all

all

constraintName

Name of the constraint to drop (if database supports names for

NOT NULL

constraints)

--

--

--

schemaName

Name of the schema

all

tableName

Name of the table containing the column to drop the constraint from

all

all

Database support

Database

Notes

Auto Rollback

DB2/LUW

Supported

Yes

DB2/z

Not Supported

No

Derby

Supported

Yes

Firebird

Not Supported

No

Google BigQuery

Supported

Yes

H2

Supported

Yes

HyperSQL

Supported

Yes

INGRES

Supported

Yes

Informix

Supported

Yes

MariaDB

Supported

Yes

MySQL

Supported

Yes

Oracle

Supported

Yes

PostgreSQL

Supported

Yes

Snowflake

Supported

Yes

SQL Server

Supported

Yes

SQLite

Not Supported

No

Sybase

Supported

Yes

Sybase Anywhere

Supported

Yes

dropNotNullConstraint examples

--liquibase formatted sql
--changeset liquibase-docs:dropNotNullConstraint-example
ALTER TABLE cat.person MODIFY id INT NULL;