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

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@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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