Re: ER Diagram design tools (Linux) - Mailing list pgsql-general

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.
>
> 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@cfconsulting.ca
> > <mailto:cfox@cfconsulting.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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