On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Markus Klink wrote:
> Would it be possible to write a program which analyses mySql tables (e.g.
> via the show tables and explain table commands) and tries to create
> ER-Diagram from this information, which can be imported to DIA?
> Unfortunately the link to the DIA Documentation Project does not work, so I
> cannot find out if it contains descriptions of the diagram files.
Try to gunzip a diagram and then just view it. It's XML-based, so you
should understand it pretty easy.
> Is there already such a program which creates the basic ER diagram from
> mySQL tables? If not: who would be responsible to do the layout of the
> diagram? Is automatic layout a feature which is already or will be included
> in DIA?
I don't know of any such program, and automatic layout is not really
planned for Dia, but we take patches.
/ Alex
