Question

Background

MySQL Workbench can produce appealing and high-quality ERDs such as:

Research

What PostgreSQL ERD tools are available that meet the requirements? The following are unsuitable:

Requirements

Looking for an ERD tool:

  • Visually stunning by default
  • Can reverse-engineer a PostgreSQL (or JDBC-compliant) database
  • Runs on Linux (or under WINE)
  • Export high-resolution PNG (or SVG)
  • Free or Open Source
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Solution

This is a little bit dated question, but for completeness. What about PgModeler? According to their github repo it's under GPL3. Schema creation works well.

OTHER TIPS

DbSchema is the best one to generate ERD for Postgresql

Installing DbSchema on Linux

wget http://www.dbschema.com/DbSchema.zip
unzip DbSchema.zip
cd DbSchema
chmod +x DbSchema.sh

To run DbSchema

./DbSchema.sh

You may try DbVisualizer. In my opinion, DbVisualizer in references graphs has met my needs in generating ERD from existing database.

What about SQL Power Architect? Works for many databases, PostgreSQL included, and on many operating systems.

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