Does Liquibase support dry run?

Question

We have couple of data schemas and we investigate the migration to Liquibase. (One of data schemas is already migrated to Liquibase).

Important question for us is if

Answer 1

Unfortunately, no.

By default, Liquibase commits the transaction executing all statements of a changeset. I assume that the migration paths you have in mind usually involve more than a single changeset.

The only way you can modify the transaction behavior is the runInTransaction attribute for the tag, as documented here. By setting it to false, you effectively disable the transaction management, i.e. it enables auto-commit mode as you can see in ChangeSet.java.

I think that this feature could be a worthwhile addition to Liquibase, so I opened a feature request: CORE-1790.