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XML changelog example

Last updated: September 2, 2025

Liquibase supports XML as a format for storing your Changelog files. There is more information about the XML format in the FAQ.

You can add XML comments outside changesets using the format <!-- my comment -->.

changelog example
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>	
<databaseChangeLog
    xmlns="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:ext="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog-ext"
    xmlns:secure="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/secure"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog/dbchangelog-latest.xsd
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog-ext
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog/dbchangelog-ext.xsd
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/secure
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/secure/liquibase-secure-latest.xsd">

    <preConditions>  
        <runningAs  username="liquibase"/>  
    </preConditions>  

    <changeSet  id="1"  author="nvoxland">  
        <createTable  tableName="person">  
            <column  name="id"  type="int"  autoIncrement="true">  
                <constraints  primaryKey="true"  nullable="false"/>  
            </column>  
            <column  name="firstname"  type="varchar(50)"/>  
            <column  name="lastname"  type="varchar(50)">  
                <constraints  nullable="false"/>  
            </column>  
            <column  name="state"  type="char(2)"/>  
        </createTable>  
    </changeSet>  

    <changeSet  id="2"  author="nvoxland">  
        <addColumn  tableName="person">  
            <column  name="username"  type="varchar(8)"/>  
        </addColumn>  
    </changeSet>  
    <changeSet  id="3"  author="nvoxland">  
        <addLookupTable  
            existingTableName="person"  existingColumnName="state"  
            newTableName="state"  newColumnName="id"  newColumnDataType="char(2)"/>  
    </changeSet>  

</databaseChangeLog>