Re: ER Diagram design tools (Linux)

On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 01:22:49PM -0800, Colin Fox wrote:
> I've created a pg_foundry project for this.
>
> Assuming the project gets approved, I'll post the link here.

Wouldn't it be better just to send that XSLT to the upstream project?

Cheers,
David.
>
> Regards,
> cf
>
>
> Malinka Rellikwodahs wrote:
> > i'm interested in both the xml extractor and the conversion, could you
> > reply with a link or some such it would be greatly appreciated ;)
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Colin Fox <cfox(at)cfconsulting(dot)ca
> > <mailto:cfox(at)cfconsulting(dot)ca>> wrote:
> >
> > Conor McTernan wrote:
> > > I was wondering if anyone knows of any good ER Diagram tools for
> > > Postgres that run on Linux.
> > >
> > > I have been using DBDesigner by FabForce for a couple of years, but
> > > development has stopped while MySQL workbench is being built (for
> > > windows only). Neither of these applications will talk to
> > Postgres and
> > > I've found DBDesigner to be a bit buggy at the best of times (it's
> > > still quite good and better than nothing I suppose).
> > >
> > > I've been using PgAdmin3 which is great for updating/managing
> > > tables/view etc, but I would really like something for modelling ER
> > > diagrams which will talk directly to Postgres.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of any commercial or open source software that
> > will do this?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Conor
> > >
> > > ---------------------------(end of
> > broadcast)---------------------------
> > > TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate
> > > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > <mailto:majordomo(at)postgresql(dot)org> so that your
> > > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
> > >
> > I've created an XSL stylesheet that works with graphviz to reverse
> > engineer an ERD from a postgres database.
> >
> > If anyone's interested, I can make this available. It works quite
> > well.
> > It uses a postgres-to-xml extractor that someone wrote (I don't
> > know who
> > - their name is not in the file) and then I convert the xml to
> > graphviz.
> >
> > Regards
> > cf
> >
> >
> > --
> > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > <mailto:pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>)
> > To make changes to your subscription:
> > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org)
> To make changes to your subscription:
> http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

--
David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> http://fetter.org/
Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter
Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david(dot)fetter(at)gmail(dot)com

Remember to vote!
Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate