Uses

The rollbackOneChangeSet goal is typically used when you want to undo a change made to your database and revert it to a previous state without affecting any other changes made to your database.

While the Maven rollback goal reverts all the deployed changesets sequentially to a specified point, the rollbackOneChangeSet goal allows you to target a specific changeset without impacting changesets that came before or after it.

The image shows changesets A through I, with changeset I being the most recently deployed. As you can see, the rollbackOneChangeSet goal allows you to target changeset B and revert it to its previous state without impacting the others.

The impacts of rollbackOneChangeSet

Using the rollbackOneChangeSet goal comes with risks of unintended consequences. For this reason, it is a best practice to run the Maven rollbackOneChangeSetSQL goal because it allows you to inspect the rollback SQL and search for any potential mistakes before you execute rollbackOneChangeSet.

Also, as the use of rollbackOneChangeSet comes with risks of unintended consequences, the goal requires a liquibase.force attribute to specify that you intend to run the goal.

Maven configuration

You can configure Liquibase Maven in multiple ways. You can pass arguments like <changeLogFile> in Maven directly in your pom.xml file, in a liquibase.properties file referenced in your POM, as environment variables, or as JVM system properties. To learn about each file's syntax, see Maven Properties.

For more information about the Maven configuration, see Configuring Maven.

Ensure that you add <ProLicenseKey>specify your Liquibase Secure license key here</ProLicenseKey> to pom.xml or specify it in another valid way.

Running the rollbackOneChangeSet Maven goal

Before running the rollbackOneChangeSet goal, gather the following information from your DATABASECHANGELOG table:

• The author of the changeset you want to revert.

• The id of the changeset you want to revert.

• The filename (changeset path) of the changeset you want to revert.

Note: The liquibase.rollbackScript script is only needed if the rollback is not yet defined in the changelog, and if it is not a rollback that is automatically provided by Liquibase.

Also, you can run the Maven history goal to see the history of all deployments against the configured database:

mvn liquibase:history

Next, run the rollbackOneChangeSet goal, with your information:

Note: Running the rollbackOneChangeSet goal requires a Maven project to be implemented.

mvn liquibase:rollbackOneChangeSet -Dliquibase.changeSetAuthor="LiquibaseProUser" -Dliquibase.changeSetId="createProSchema" -Dliquibase.changeSetPath="changelog.xml" -Dliquibase.force

Note: Enter the name of the changeset author, id, and the path with the changelog filename that you want to use in place of LiquibaseProUser, createProSchema, and changelog.xml. For more information, run mvn liquibase:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=rollbackOneChangeSet.

Maven rollbackOneChangeSet output

Starting Liquibase at 05:45:35 (version 4.1.1 #10 built at 2020-10-12 19:24+0000) [INFO] Parsing Liquibase Properties File local.liquibase.properties for changeLog parameters [INFO] Executing on Database: jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521/ORCL [INFO] Successfully installed license from Base64 string starting with 'ABwwGgQUvH' (property liquibaseProLicenseKey). [INFO] Liquibase Secure 4.1.1 by Liquibase licensed to support until Wed Sep 22 23:59:59 CDT 2021 [INFO] Liquibase Secure 4.1.1 by Liquibase licensed to support until Wed Sep 22 23:59:59 CDT 2021 [INFO] Successfully acquired change log lock [INFO] Reading from DATABASECHANGELOG Rolling Back Changeset:changelog.xml::createProSchema::LiquibaseProUser [INFO] Successfully released change log lock [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 5.356 s [INFO] Finished at: 2020-11-27T05:45:37-06:00 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------