Thread: ERD Plugin?

Kind people,

I noticed a TODO item that looked pretty neat (as in move over,
Embarcadero & ErWin ;) namely:

"Build an entity relationship diagramming plugin. This should reverse
engineer the database to build a user updateable ER diagram of a
database."

Has this gotten specified in any more detail than this?  Who's been
(or would like to be) working on it?

Cheers,
D
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Fetter [mailto:david@fetter.org]
> Sent: 06 July 2003 19:42
> To: pgAdmin3 Hackers
> Subject: [pgadmin-hackers] ERD Plugin?
>
>
> Kind people,
>
> I noticed a TODO item that looked pretty neat (as in move
> over, Embarcadero & ErWin ;) namely:
>
> "Build an entity relationship diagramming plugin. This should
> reverse engineer the database to build a user updateable ER
> diagram of a database."
>
> Has this gotten specified in any more detail than this?
> Who's been (or would like to be) working on it?

Hi David,

That's on the old pgAdmin II todo list, however it certainly still
sounds like a good idea for pgAdmin III. As far as I know no-one is
working on it for either version.

Please feel free to have a go if you like, though we would like to know
what version you are coding for if you do (III is definately preferred
of course). If you need any help or advice don't hesitate to email the
list.

Regards, Dave.

David Fetter wrote:

>Kind people,
>
>I noticed a TODO item that looked pretty neat (as in move over,
>Embarcadero & ErWin ;) namely:
>
>
Hm,
don't these tools provide reverse engineering themselves?
Realizing this in pgAdmin would mean to implement something specially
for pgsql that's done dbms independently in other tools. I haven't
looked so far for open source ERD programs (worked a long time with
Sybase/Powersoft AppModeler), but I'd consider it better supporting
existing tools with pgsql programming than reinventing the wheel.

Regards,
Andreas