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

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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