Обсуждение: Looking for a good ERD Tool
I'm looking for a good ERD tool that's designed to work with PostgreSQL... currently I use the one found here http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/index.php for MySQL, and I just create the actual tables and such by hand... kinda of a kludge, and I lose all the reverse engineering benefits... but cest'le'vie. Anyway, would like to find a similar tool specifically designed for PostgreSQL... does one exist or is it a futile search?
I don't know what OS you're using, but I recently went through the same search on a very tight budget (free). I ended up using Visio because I already had it. I have Visio 2002 but found out that the standard version that I have won't connect to an ODBC DB and generate an ERD. However, the Pro version will. In my case, I ended up biting the bullet and creating everything by hand. My DB only has 41 tables, so it wasn't as bad as I was afraid it would be. I also used the trial version of EMS PostgreSQL Manager. It was OK. I really only used it to create a diagram. It did create the diagram. But by the time I rearranged all of the tables so that the lines representing my FK's weren't crossing and the whole diagram fit on an 11x17 sheet of paper and was still big enough to be legible - it ended up taking about the same amount of time as it took me in Visio to create the whole thing myself.
There are probability* *a few around, but i think most people just use a flowcharting software to created designs. I know for the work that i do with postgresql i use smartdraw as it can do anything i want then i apply these designs to postgresql using EMS Manager. Rob Brenart wrote: > I'm looking for a good ERD tool that's designed to work with > PostgreSQL... currently I use the one found here > http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/index.php for MySQL, and I just > create the actual tables and such by hand... kinda of a kludge, and I > lose all the reverse engineering benefits... but cest'le'vie. > > Anyway, would like to find a similar tool specifically designed for > PostgreSQL... does one exist or is it a futile search? > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend > > >
>> I was afraid of that, it's such a useless duplication of effort, but >> what can you do... what's EMS Manager though, I'm just using phpPgAdmin >> >> > EMS is a more polished version phpPgAdmin has a lot more features I dunno if I'd define the same way you have, one of the great things about phpPgAdmin is that it's installed completely server side, so you can access it from any computer with a browser... and more importantly, you can do so without opening up any ports and making your postgresql database accessible remotely. Regardless, I'm enjoying it so far, phpPgAdmin is just missing too much.... and I see that the professional ($500) version has the ERD tools I was talking about, does anyone have experience with these, or are there better pay to play tools for these?
On 07.07.2005 06:23, Rob Brenart wrote: > Anyway, would like to find a similar tool specifically designed for > PostgreSQL... does one exist or is it a futile search? I tested almost anything that is out there over the years.. http://www.casestudio.com Works perfect with PG8, fully script- and extendable, great support and almost bugfree, but it's Win32 only.