Re: [Gnumed-devel] progress

[Horst Herb]

Hilmar Berger wrote:
> > Has anybody taken up yet the request for Dia diagrams of the existing tables? 
> > Would make it a lot easier for newcomers to understand the backend design.
>
>
> What are 'Dia' diagrams ? any special type of presentation format ala

It is a universal tool for creating diagrams - in our case UML diagrams. 
There is a tool called "PostgreSQL AutoDoc" (http://www.rbt.ca/autodoc/) 
that generates the Dia files automatically (and cross references HTML 
documentation of the entire database structure as well), but the 
placement of graphical objects has to be edited manually - the 
automatically generated one looks awfully messy.

Having such diagrams (similar to the ones used in MS Access where yu 
define table relationships) is very helpful for developers not familiar 
with the internal workings of teh database structure

Horst