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Are there any good Linux CLI tools for generating an ERD?
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by iomcr
1668 days ago
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I'm attempting to make a ERD and most of what I find on google are just heavily SEO'd SaaS-wares begging me to pay $$ per month for the privilege of manually dragging my mouse around their slow websites for hours. I'm using postgres but I'm fine with anything that requires a little bit of scripting or config files as long as it doesn't require yet another free trial of barely useful. The non-free ones that I have tried, have huge usability issues such as requiring me to drag literally every table into the diagram, one by one, and also the auto-arrange feature made an obsurdly large diagram with cartoonishly high amounts of whitespace. Long term, I'd like to be able to automatically generate 5-10 ERDs (because all-in-one is too big) of these as part of my CI/CD process for my documentation. |
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It's a java GUI application, offered via open core model (community version is GPLv3 licenced, and you can buy extensions and support), but the community version should be quite useful.
Wrt scripting, I expect that you can import schema of existing database and if I recall correctly, one could theoretically reuse the xslt transformations (which implements export features) outside of the app to eg. convert xml with the ERD diagram into html or sql script outside of the app (which could be useful for CI/CD).