At 16.10.2013 13:18, Chris Daley wrote:
Greetings fellow Diaistas,
I had a need for designing database diagrams in Dia and importing/exporting
them to Postgres. I tried some of the existing solutions and was never
quite satisfied with them so in the end I wrote my own.
It's pretty freshly baked, I only finished the first cut of it last night
and I'm no Python expert but here it is in all its glory:
https://github.com/chebizarro/postdia
Looks interesting and IMHO implementing this as a Dia plug-in is the right
way to go.
A few points to make before I get around to documenting it properly:
What it does:
- it will import a database from a Postgres server and create a UML diagram
which is, for the most part, based on the tedia2sql format -
http://tedia2sql.tigris.org/usingtedia2sql.html
There is a sample Dia file included which was generated by the plugin.
- it will export a UML diagram based on the above specification to a
Postgres compatible SQL file.
Could you eloborate a bit more why you choose UML to represent the database
tables? Since Dia 0.97 there are dedicated database objects by
https://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/commit/?id=b083ef1f0eec15b3f157d256a5a56548c82148e7
Is there some issue with the set of databse objects, which made you avoid
them in your plug-in?
Thanks,
Hans
-------- Hans "at" Breuer "dot" Org -----------
Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to
get along without it. -- Dilbert
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