Re: design tool

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 19:25:01 +0000 (UTC), vygen(at)gmx(dot)de (Janning Vygen)
wrote:

>are there any good design ttols for postgres?
>
>i found dbdesigner - cant even save projects
>dezign - looks good, but only windows
>
>do you know of any other?

I have used PowerDesigner from Sybase. It supports Postgresql (amongst
50 other database types, from Oracle, Sybase to postgresql, ANSI SQL
or dBase).
You draw tables, relations and specialisations and with one click on a
button all "create table" and "create trigger" statements are created
for you. It can generate big reports too. If you have an ODBC
connection to your database it can create the database too (or
*change* the current model to the new version)

It has some 'limimations' though
- windoze only (though it might run under VMware)
- it has a, erm, 'professional' price tag

You can download a fully function time-limited evaluation version from
www.sybase.com. (and there seem to be no cracks available..)

I really like it. But database design is just a too small part of my
job to justify the cost...

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