Hi,
We recently adopted liquibase and it has greatly simplified the task of getting DB in sync with code.
However we might have a problem in using liquibase in production.
The issue in automating the schema application for production is the alters to big tables coming through distinct change sets at different times.
Team 1 checks in “alter table bigtable column1” , Team 2 at later point adds “alter table bigtable column2”.
It would take lets say (30 mins ) to run the alters independently in production as opposed to 15 mins if they were part of a single alter stmt wrapped under a single changeset.
We cannot merge them into single change set as it would break liquibase changeset checksum validation.
I would very much appreciate any insights on how folks in general are dealing with this scenario.
Do folks use precondition to get around this issue?
Thanks!