Liquibase failed while creating DATABASECHANGELOG table on Redshift

I have been trying to do a liquibase setup for redshift cluster and I am getting following error:

ERROR: Exception Details

ERROR: Exception Primary Class: RedshiftException

ERROR: Exception Primary Reason: ERROR: syntax error at or near “TAG” in context “255), TAG”, at line 1

Position: 288

ERROR: Exception Primary Source: Redshift 8.0.2

Unexpected error running Liquibase: ERROR: syntax error at or near “TAG” in context “255), TAG”, at line 1

Position: 288 [Failed SQL: (0) CREATE TABLE public.DATABASECHANGELOG (ID VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, AUTHOR VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, FILENAME VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, DATEEXECUTED datetime NOT NULL, ORDEREXECUTED INT NOT NULL, EXECTYPE VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL, MD5SUM VARCHAR(35), DESCRIPTION VARCHAR(255), COMMENTS VARCHAR(255), TAG VARCHAR(255), LIQUIBASE VARCHAR(20), CONTEXTS VARCHAR(255), LABELS VARCHAR(255), DEPLOYMENT_ID VARCHAR(10))]

I have tried changing the driver version but no effect

current config

liquibase version - 4.28

JDBC_LIB_PATH = “/liquibase/lib”

Download Latest Redshift JDBC Driver (2.1.0.12)

wget -q -O ${JDBC_LIB_PATH}/redshift-jdbc-driver.jar \

https://s3.amazonaws.com/redshift-downloads/drivers/jdbc/2.1.0.12/redshift-jdbc42-2.1.0.12.jar

Download Latest Liquibase Redshift Extension (4.28)

wget -q -O ${JDBC_LIB_PATH}/liquibase-redshift.jar \

https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/liquibase/ext/liquibase-redshift/4.28.0/liquibase-redshift-4.28.0.jar

our properties file:

url=$REDSHIFT_URL

driver=com.amazon.redshift.jdbc.Driver

classpath=${JDBC_LIB_PATH}/redshift-jdbc-driver.jar:${JDBC_LIB_PATH}/liquibase-redshift.jar

username=$DB_USERNAME

password=$DB_PASSWORD

changeLogFile=$CHANGELOG_FILE_PATH

defaultSchemaName=public

liquibase.quoteIdentifiers=true

so can anyone help me on this

Hi Team,
solved the issue by providing the --classpath=/liquibase/lib/liquibase-redshift.jar in liquibase update command

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Thanks for coming back to post your solution @saipurushoth!