In general, you don't need to have preconditions for things like 'table exists' before the change that creates a a table because liquibase will see that the change to create the table has already been applied, and won't try to re-apply it.
If you have an existing database that you are starting to bring under Liquibase management, see the page http://www.liquibase.org/documentation/existing_project.html for some ideas on how to get started.
Steve Donie
Principal Software Engineer
Datical, Inc. http://www.datical.com/
Steve Donie
Principal Software Engineer
Datical, Inc. http://www.datical.com/