Re: Documenting a DB schema

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MicroOlap (or MicrOlap) does a nice job of creating schema diagrams for postgres. I have had a little trouble with re-engineering databases that have had a lot of alterations, however. But their tech support is reasonable.

Mary



Michael Monnerie wrote:
On Dienstag, 4. März 2008 Shahaf Abileah wrote:
create table table_with_comments(a int comment 'this is
column a...');
(see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/create-table.html)
However, Postgres doesn't support the "comment" keyword.  Is there an
alternative?

This sounds nice at first thought... but: you need to document tables also, and relations between tables etc. And especially the complex dependencies can't be documented that way ("if you insert this here, look into table x and y and compare this with table z, blabla").

And I'd like to know how often such funny documentation can be found when it's used, take your example:
create table table_with_comments(a int comment 'this is
column a...');
I've seen such documentation a lot - just bought a Nokia E65 mobile phone, it's handbook has this kind of documentation printed in it... worthless.

But, BTW, does anybody have a good tool to show graphically the relations between tables, and maybe even draw relations between tables and create all necessary commands from this automatically? That would be nice, along with documentation features...

mfg zmi


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