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

From Colin Fox
Subject Re: ER Diagram design tools (Linux)
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Msg-id 47D1B229.1020106@cfconsulting.ca
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In response to Re: ER Diagram design tools (Linux)  ("Malinka Rellikwodahs" <aelmalinka@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: ER Diagram design tools (Linux)  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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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@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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