Re: How to make a good documentation of a database ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Matt
Subject Re: How to make a good documentation of a database ?
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Msg-id 1100790179.4229.106.camel@matt.kynx.org
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In response to How to make a good documentation of a database ?  (David Pradier <dpradier@apartia.fr>)
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> The problem is, I don't want to use a lot of time to maintain this
> documentation, and above all, I'd prefer not to insert the information
> twice (read: a new constraint in the database should automagically
> update the documentation).

It's a while since I've used them (just coming back to postgres after
enforced exile in mysqlville) but last I checked:
http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/dbutils/
Could generate UML diagrams from your DB. You might still be stuck
diff-ing them when you change the db, but at least they're prettier than
pg-dump.

Matt


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