Re: ER Diagram design tools (Linux)

David Fetter wrote:
> 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.
>
I don't know which project you mean. The postgresql project?

I have a couple of files that go along with it - instructions, some
documentation, examples, etc.

I'm certainly more than willing to provide this to the PG team, if
they're interested.

It just seems that the pg_foundry is a logical place to put all the
project information.

Regards,
cf

>> 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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