From: Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: GUI ERD/ERM tools?
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:36:02 -0500
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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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