[PLUG] Database E-R design tools

[Chris Jantzen]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:50:21AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Chris Jantzen wrote:
> 
> > Dia is a very nice program that can do these sorts of diagrams. And
> > there are some programs/scripts that can generate postgres schema from
> > the diagrams. IIRC the one I looked it, however, didn't necessarily use
> > E-R as a source, but rather a mutilated UML.
> 
>   I could use 'tgif' to draw the diagrams, but I want to be able to
> associate tuples with the relations and have sql code generated. Holger's
> suggestion of Clay is an ideal solution because I'm already using Eclipse.

I'm glad you found a good solution. I do think you misunderstand,
though. Dia is a Visio-type application. Files are saved in XML (IIRC),
not as images. Good luck with Eclipse!

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