.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 4.14 (Pod::Simple 3.43) .\" .\" Standard preamble: .\" ======================================================================== .de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) .if t .sp .5v .if n .sp .. .de Vb \" Begin verbatim text .ft CW .nf .ne \\$1 .. .de Ve \" End verbatim text .ft R .fi .. .\" Set up some character translations and predefined strings. \*(-- will .\" give an unbreakable dash, \*(PI will give pi, \*(L" will give a left .\" double quote, and \*(R" will give a right double quote. \*(C+ will .\" give a nicer C++. Capital omega is used to do unbreakable dashes and .\" therefore won't be available. \*(C` and \*(C' expand to `' in nroff, .\" nothing in troff, for use with C<>. .tr \(*W- .ds C+ C\v'-.1v'\h'-1p'\s-2+\h'-1p'+\s0\v'.1v'\h'-1p' .ie n \{\ . ds -- \(*W- . ds PI pi . if (\n(.H=4u)&(1m=24u) .ds -- \(*W\h'-12u'\(*W\h'-12u'-\" diablo 10 pitch . if (\n(.H=4u)&(1m=20u) .ds -- \(*W\h'-12u'\(*W\h'-8u'-\" diablo 12 pitch . ds L" "" . ds R" "" . ds C` "" . ds C' "" 'br\} .el\{\ . ds -- \|\(em\| . ds PI \(*p . ds L" `` . ds R" '' . ds C` . ds C' 'br\} .\" .\" Escape single quotes in literal strings from groff's Unicode transform. .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el .ds Aq ' .\" .\" If the F register is >0, we'll generate index entries on stderr for .\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index .\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the .\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion. .\" .\" Avoid warning from groff about undefined register 'F'. .de IX .. .nr rF 0 .if \n(.g .if rF .nr rF 1 .if (\n(rF:(\n(.g==0)) \{\ . if \nF \{\ . de IX . tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2" .. . if !\nF==2 \{\ . nr % 0 . nr F 2 . \} . \} .\} .rr rF .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "SQLT-DIAGRAM 1p" .TH SQLT-DIAGRAM 1p "2022-11-19" "perl v5.36.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l .nh .SH "NAME" sqlt\-diagram \- Automatically create a diagram from a database schema .SH "SYNOPSIS" .IX Header "SYNOPSIS" .Vb 1 \& ./sqlt\-diagram \-d|\-f|\-\-from|\-\-db=db_parser [options] schema.sql \& \& Options: \& \& \-o|\-\-output Output file name (default STDOUT) \& \-i|\-\-image Output image type ("png" or "jpeg," default "png") \& \-t|\-\-title Title to give schema \& \-c|\-\-cols Number of columns \& \-n|\-\-no\-lines Don\*(Aqt draw lines \& \-\-font\-size Font size ("small," "medium," "large," or "huge," \& default "medium") \& \-\-gutter Gutter size between tables \& \-\-color Add colors \& \-\-show\-fk\-only Only show fields that act as primary \& or foreign keys \& \& \-\-natural\-join Perform natural joins \& \-\-natural\-join\-pk Perform natural joins from primary keys only \& \-s|\-\-skip Fields to skip in natural joins \& \-\-skip\-tables Comma\-separated list of table names to exclude \& \-\-skip\-tables\-like Comma\-separated list of regexen to exclude tables \& \-\-debug Print debugging information .Ve .SH "DESCRIPTION" .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" This script will create a picture of your schema. Only the database driver argument (for SQL::Translator) is required. If no output file name is given, then image will be printed to \s-1STDOUT,\s0 so you should redirect the output into a file. .PP The default action is to assume the presence of foreign key relationships defined via \*(L"\s-1REFERENCES\*(R"\s0 or \*(L"\s-1FOREIGN KEY\*(R"\s0 constraints on the tables. If you are parsing the schema of a file that does not have these, you will find the natural join options helpful. With natural joins, like-named fields will be considered foreign keys. This can prove too permissive, however, as you probably don't want a field called \*(L"name\*(R" to be considered a foreign key, so you could include it in the \*(L"skip\*(R" option, and all fields called \*(L"name\*(R" will be excluded from natural joins. A more efficient method, however, might be to simply deduce the foreign keys from primary keys to other fields named the same in other tables. Use the \*(L"natural-join-pk\*(R" option to achieve this. .SH "AUTHOR" .IX Header "AUTHOR" Ken Youens-Clark .