Re: Visual Designer in linux?

There is an ODBC driver for windows that will then talk native to the
PostgreSQL database, why not use that?

Also what features do you think something might be able to use anyway
to "optimise"?

Hope this helps,

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 02:49:06PM -0500, Eric wrote:
> I tried a lot of apps. The one I prefer is "DbDesigner4" but I don't
> see support for postgresql... Only Oracle, mySQL...
>
> There is support for ODBC, I don't know if that will do the job if I
> install Unix-ODBC and create a postgres data source.
>
> The point is, IF I succeed to make it work with postgres, I don't know
> if I will have a non-optimized database at the end... because
> DBDesigner4 won't take profit of postgres features?
>
>
> On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 00:29, Alvaro Herrera Munoz wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 10:32:30PM -0500, Eric wrote:
> > > Is there a visual designer (open source) in linux for database? I would
> > > like to developp my data model on the computer...
> > >
> > > I see "dia" with uml library but... it won't export to SQL.
> >
> > You can have UML diagrams exported to SQL with some Perl or Python program
> > whose URL you can find on Dia's homepage. dia2sql or something like
> > that. It's damn easy. Hmm ... I think I got the URL somewhere ...
> > yes, you are lucky: http://tedia2sql.tigris.org/
>
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