Database Policy Checks

Last updated: July 14, 2025

Database policy checks allow you to confirm the presence of specific objects and conditions in the database to ensure the integrity of the database.

To execute these policy checks, ensure that --checks-scope contains database.

For more information about using policy checks, see Policy Checks. For a list of all checks, see Library of Policy Checks.

Database Checks

Short Name	Scope (`--checks-scope` value)	Description	Enabled by Default	Liquibase version required
`ChainedChecksTemplate`	`changelog` or `database`			4.27.0+
`ObjectNameMustMatch`	`changelog` or `database`	The ObjectNameMustMatch check allows you to confirm the listed object names conform to the supplied pattern.	false	4.6.2+
`ObjectNameMustNotMatch`	`changelog` or `database`	The ObjectNameMustNotMatch check allows you to confirm the listed object names conform to the supplied pattern and locate the object names that do not match so they can be corrected.	false	4.6.2+
`OracleReservedKeywords`	`changelog` or `database`	This check can be used to prevent Oracle's reserved keywords from being used in database object names.	false	4.12.0+
`PostgresNonReservedKeywords`	`changelog` or `database`	This check disallows Postgres non-reserved keywords from being used in database object names. See the SQL Key Words Appenix for complete list of keywords.	false	4.12.0+
`PostgresReservedKeywords`	`changelog` or `database`	This check disallows Postgres reserved keywords from being used in database object names. See the SQL Key Words Appendix for complete list of keywords.	false	4.12.0+
`SQLServerFutureReservedKeywords`	`changelog` or `database`	This check disallows SQL Server's future reserved keywords from being used in database object names. See Reserved Keywords (Transact-SQL) for complete list of keywords.	false	4.12.0+
`SQLServerODBCReservedKeywords`	`changelog` or `database`	This check disallows SQL Server's ODBC reserved keywords from being used in database object names. See Reserved Keywords (Transact-SQL) for complete list of keywords.	false	4.12.0+
`SQLServerReservedKeywords`	`changelog` or `database`	This check disallows SQL Server reserved keywords from being used in database object names. See Reserved Keywords (Transact-SQL) for complete list of keywords.	false	4.12.0+
`TableColumnLimit`	`changelog` or `database`	The TableColumnLimit check allows you to ensure that no table described in a changelog or existing in a database target has more than a threshold number of columns.	true	4.5.0+
`TableCommentCheck`	`changelog` or `database`	The TableCommentCheck check allows you to flag any table that does not have a comment. Note that this is not a check for a Liquibase changelog comment.	false	4.12.0+
`TableCommentPatternCheck`	`changelog` or `database`	The TableCommentPatternCheck check triggers when specific user-supplied patterns are present in table comments.	false	4.12.0+
`CheckTablesForIndex`	`database`	This check scans your target URL database tables to find tables which do not have an associated index.	true	4.19.0+
`ConstraintMustExist`	`database`	The ConstraintMustExist check allows you to specify an individual table or column by name to check that it has one or more specific constraints.	false	4.12.0+