liquibase-snowflake

DEPRECATED

As of Liquibase 4.12.0, Snowflake support ships directly in Liquibase and this extension is no longer needed.

If you are adding this extension to your Liquibase CLI or to your project a dependency with 4.12.0+, you should remove that dependency to avoid code conflicts.

Any bugfixes and issues should be directed to the main Liquibase repository

Legacy Information

Snowflake Extension

Liquibase extension to add Snowflake support.

Initial release supports applying formatted sql changesets. It might support other types of refactorings but they haven't been tested. Some of the interesting overrides / extensions are documented below.

Database

currentDateTimeFunction

Snowflake's current_timestamp function returns a timestamp_ltz datetype, while the datetime Liquibase datatype maps to a Snowflake timestamp_ntz column. To avoid exceptions, the current_timestamp is cast to a timestamp_ntz. Without the cast, exceptions of the form given below occur.

SQL compilation error: Expression type does not match column data type, expecting TIMESTAMP_NTZ(9) but got TIMESTAMP_LTZ(9)

getJdbcCatalogName

The Snowflake JDBC drivers implementation of DatabaseMetadata.getTables() hard codes quotes around the catalog, schema and table names, resulting in queries of the form:

show tables like 'DATABASECHANGELOG' in schema "sample_db"."sample_schema"

This results in the DATABASECHANGELOG table not being found, even after it has been created. Since Snowflake stores catalog and schema names in upper case, the getJdbcCatalogName returns an upper case value.

getJdbcSchemaName

See getJdbcCatalogName

Datatype Mappings

datetime

The datetime datatype in Snowflake is an alias for the datatype timestamp_ntz, Date and Time Data Types. The TimestampNTZType class clarifies this mapping from Liquibase datetime to Snowflake timestamp_ntz. To map text datatype in changesets to text Snowflake datatype SnowflakeTextDataType class is added (default liquibase-core classes maps it to CLOB)

ChangeLog

2020-02-02 : upgrade to liquibase 3.8.5

Using the Liquibase Test Harness in Extensions

The liquibase-snowflake extension now comes with integration test support via the liquibase-test-harness.

For more information on using the test-harness to test the snowflake extension, see [README.test-harness.md]