Re: ER Diagram design tools (Linux)

From: Colin Fox <cfox(at)cfconsulting(dot)ca>
To: AelMalinka(at)gmail(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ER Diagram design tools (Linux)
Date: 2008-03-07 21:22:49
Message-ID: 47D1B229.1020106@cfconsulting.ca
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I've created a pg_foundry project for this.

Assuming the project gets approved, I'll post the link here.

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
> >
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> 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
>
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