Re: Are there programs to graph database schema?

From: Thierry Missimilly <THIERRY(dot)MISSIMILLY(at)BULL(dot)NET>
To: Juan Miguel <juanmime(at)ono(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Are there programs to graph database schema?
Date: 2004-01-14 15:54:06
Message-ID: 4005661E.627CBF74@BULL.NET
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Hi,

For a small schema, i've used PGACESS. There is a graphical editor which help
you to draw boxes with the foreign keys.

Thierry

Juan Miguel wrote:

> Hi, I use MS Visio Professional, and it works (not very good), but it works.
> I ever wondered if there is a opensource tool, that let me create an
> automatic ER-Model diagram from an existing DB, like MS Visio.
> Do you know if this tool exists ?
>
> Thanks
>
> >Hi Tony,
> >
> >TR> It occured to me that perhaps programs existed which simply parsed the
> >TR> table definitions and plotted the graphs for you.
> >
> >If I need to create an [E]ER-Modell from an existing databasae,
> >I mostly use MS Visio professional. It can reverse engineer via
> >ODBC lots of DBS.
> >
> >Rico
> >
> >
> >
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