Hi Stan!
Don't know if you're interested in pgmodeler specifically or database
modelers in general. At work, we use postgresql a lot and have found
that DBeaver, which is open source, does a decent job of creating ERD
diagrams. Personally, I don't like using DBeaver's interface for
executing SQL statements but some of its other features are nice.
Sue
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Susan E Hurst
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Brookhurst Data LLC
Email: susan.hurst@brookhurstdata.com
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On 2019-09-02 12:31, stan wrote:
> Some very helpful folks pointed me to pgmodeler recently.
>
> I realize this list may not be the appropriate forum for discussing
> this, and
> would welcome pointers to a more appropriate forum.
>
> Having said that, this discussion may be a bit more generic.
>
> I have seen a number of open source products (Amanda is a good
> example), where a
> company sort of "takes over" the project, the company's bossiness plan
> is generally
> that of making money on support. Most of these companies have a
> community edition,
> which trails development of the product with their enhancements. U
> understand
> that this model is acceptable to GPL licensed software.
>
> The company supporting pgmodeler seems to have a different model. It
> looks like
> they provide a version of the tool that requires a license key, with
> limited life
> span.
>
> What I am trying to do, at the moment is get a complete understanding
> of their
> bossiness model, regarding the source code for this project.
>
> Thanks for any input on this.
