- 09 Feb 2010 -
This seems fairly simple in hindsight, but I had a difficult time finding an answer to it, so I putting it down here for posterity’s sake.
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0
I put this as the first changeset in a liquibase xml file. This disables the foreign key and constraint checking in mysql. This would work for other db’s as well, but I haven’t looked up their syntax just yet.