Re: GUI ERD/ERM tools? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Samuel Stearns
Subject Re: GUI ERD/ERM tools?
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Msg-id 68B59BEDCD36854AADBDF17E91B2937A0783A7289D@EXCHMAIL.staff.internode.com.au
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In response to Re: GUI ERD/ERM tools?  (Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>)
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Another option is 'Database => Reverse Engineer' in Visio.

Sam

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From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Chris Browne
Sent: Tuesday, 16 November 2010 3:06 AM
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] GUI ERD/ERM tools?

loupicciano@comcast.net (Lou Picciano) writes:
> This question from our users keeps coming up...
>
> What tools are each of you using for ERD ERM? pgAmin's Graphical Query Builder
> is helpful, but doesn't address the need.
>
> Can any of you recommend specific tools, preferences, etc?

I have tended to find that when doing design work, nothing is better for
the purposes of discussion of alternatives than a whiteboard and
markers.

Once the thinking has been done, I might use TCM to draft diagrams of
some of the relationships <http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~tcm/> to
compactly present them.

Once the thinking is stable enough to create tables, I like SchemaSpy
for providing diagramming that people can "click through" to examine the
relationships between tables.  <http://schemaspy.sourceforge.net/>
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