Re:Documenting your PostgreSQL database
by narrator on Sunday July 26, 2015 @09:40PM
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Anyone had any good experiences with tools to graphically document PostgreSQL with E/R Diagrams, etc.?
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Nearly all the standard data modelling tools(ERwin,System Architect, Enterprise Architect ...) have a facility for reverse engineering a schema. This produces an ER diagram for the schema. It's worth pointing out however that this diagram gives you structure not semantics. The latter has to come from elsewhere.
Not an E/R diagram, but to generate table diagrams that you can navigate (in HTML), SchemaSpy (http://schemaspy.sourceforge.net/) is really good.
I use DBSchema for ER diagrams, works well.
http://www.dbschema.com/screenshots.html
Re:Documenting your PostgreSQL database
by francisb07 on Monday July 27, 2015 @01:33AM
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We use lucidchart and balsamiq at times to model ERDs using the crow's foot style. There are certain gems for Ruby on Rails dev that generate ERDs from the schema,.