Software that can automatically make sense of a DB's tables and ID names

From: Philip Rhoades <phil(at)pricom(dot)com(dot)au>
To: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Software that can automatically make sense of a DB's tables and ID names
Date: 2018-06-12 17:14:48
Message-ID: c7d1d0a9a1d57371c796699c982ca2b1@pricom.com.au
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People,

I haven't really been keeping up with what is happening in the PG world
- now I have an old Discourse DB that I want to extract some of the
categories and topics from to insert into the current setup. What I was
wondering is if anyone has developed software in recent years that can
look at the DB as a whole and automatically make sense of how all the
tables relate to each other - assuming a sensible naming convention has
been used for IDs etc - and allows one to browse the tables easily
without having to manually type lots of SQL statements.

Discourse now has a utility for exporting and importing to do this sort
of stuff but I don't have a running setup for the old data - just a data
dump . .

Thanks,

Phil.
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Philip Rhoades

PO Box 896
Cowra NSW 2794
Australia
E-mail: phil(at)pricom(dot)com(dot)au

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