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PgModeler – PostgreSQL Database Modeler

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Re: PgModeler – PostgreSQL Database Modeler

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Can anyone suggest any better alternatives, even paid ones? I absolutely love PGSQL and it's a great software, but it severely lacks in good tools.

I use DataGrip, part of the IntelliJ / Idea Suite. It’s a bit fiddly in terms of UI, but that’s a one time learning curve - everything else from there is a breeze. Also has excellent integration with the other Idea tools, if you use them.

Re: PgModeler – PostgreSQL Database Modeler

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Can anyone suggest any better alternatives, even paid ones? I absolutely love PGSQL and it's a great software, but it severely lacks in good tools.

> it severely lacks in good tools.

I'm happy with pgadmin4 3.1.

Liked and used pgModeler for a while now.

The pgwiki on tooling[0] contains thousands of tools. Effort is needed in cleaning it up. Also found a cleaner version on postgresql.org[1]

> even paid ones?

Heard good things about navicat.

[0]: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Community_Guide_to_PostgreS... [1]: https://www.postgresql.org/download/products/1-administratio...

edit: what kind of db tools are you looking for?

Re: PgModeler – PostgreSQL Database Modeler

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No, you can't. You can download the source code and build it yourself, or you can download a binary demo, or you can pay for a binary. I used this tool a lot on Arch which had PKGBUILD for it on AUR but I wasn't able to build it on MacOS.

But you don't have to pay for a subscription. You pay for a binary plus x months of updates up front--it's not subscription software.

To be fair, it is described as "Expires in 6 months" on the purchase page which makes it very unclear if the binary you downloaded is going to stop working. If it does stop working then it's not unlike subscription software.

I was actually vaguely contemplating purchasing it until that uncertainty made me think paying them might give me something worse than free (ie: something that would break at an inopportune moment in 6 months).

Re: PgModeler – PostgreSQL Database Modeler

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Can anyone suggest any better alternatives, even paid ones? I absolutely love PGSQL and it's a great software, but it severely lacks in good tools.

It's ugly and dated but I still love SquirrelSQL. (It's not PGSQL specific, but that's part of why I love it ...)
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