pgmodeler

Open-source data modeling tool designed for PostgreSQL. No more typing DDL commands. Let pgModeler do the work for you!

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Open-source data modeling tool designed for PostgreSQL. No more typing DDL commands. Let pgModeler do the work for you!

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HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-09-27 11:46:25 UTC to 2020-08-09 10:55:51 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
2012	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

What Hacker News says

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0XAFFE·Aug 9, 2020

If I would ever would launch a product, I would choose AGPL for the open source side and provide a commercial license for those who need it. This has the advantage over MIT/Apache that if someone wants to build a business arround your free software, they have to provide their changes to everyone. I discovered this for pgmodeler[1] and found it a very good way to monetize the development of the application. [1] https://github.com/pgmodeler/pgmodeler

In Ask HN: Is it a good practice to provide open-source version of your paid app?

davyjones·Jan 18, 2017

Those fall under db authoring/modeling tools. https://github.com/pgmodeler/pgmodeler is a good pick.

In RethinkDB Postmortem

petepete·Mar 12, 2014

pgModeler is also very good. http://www.pgmodeler.com.br/ https://github.com/pgmodeler/pgmodeler

In Visualizing Rails Schemas with the RailRoady Gem

motter·Sep 27, 2012

Note the warning from the README: "Although this is a major upgrade version of pgModeler it is recommended NOT EXPORT the models created directly to production environments. Not all possible code generation were tested in this way, is its your own risk export the models into environments that are not intended for testing. The project's author is not responsible for any possible loss of data due the inappropriate use of this tool." https://github.com/pgmodeler/pgmodeler#warning

In PostgreSQL Database Modeler