From: | Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> |
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To: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: GUI ERD/ERM tools? |
Date: | 2010-11-15 16:36:02 |
Message-ID: | 87ipzyfsst.fsf@cbbrowne.afilias-int.info |
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loupicciano(at)comcast(dot)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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