Last updated: August 12, 2026
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 -->.
<?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>