Generate the ERD for an existing database

You can use dbeaver to do this. It allows you to export the ER diagram as png/svg etc.

DBeaver - https://dbeaver.io/

Double click on a schema (eg, Schemas->public->Tables) and open the "ER Diagram" tab (next to "Properties" tab)

pgAdmin 4 version 30 and newer can generate the ERD from an existing database. Just right-click on the database and select Generate ERD.

pgModeler can generate nice ER diagram from PostgreSQL databases.

• https://pgmodeler.io/
• License: GPLv3

It seems there is no manual, but it is easy enough without manual. It's QT application. AFAIK, Fedora and Ubuntu has package. (pgmodeler)

In the latest version of pgModeler (0.9.1) the trial version allows you to create ERD (the design button is not disabled). To do so:

1. Click Design button to first create an empty 'design model'
2. Then click on Import and connect to the server and database you want (unless you already set that up in Manage, in which case all your databases will be available to select in step 3)
3. Import all objects (it will warn that you are importing to the current model, which is fine since it is empty).
4. Now switch back to the Design tab to see your ERD.

Download DbVisualizer from : https://www.dbvis.com/download/10.0

and after installing create database connection:

Change highlighted detail of your db and test by click ping server. Finally click connect

Enjoy.

I wrote this utility, it automatically generates the DSL code from a postgres database which you can then paste into dbdiagram.io/d website to get ER diagrams

https://github.com/nsingla/dbdiagrams

Our team use Visual Paradigm to generate ER diagram from database in many of our projects. While we mainly work on MS SQL and Oracle, as I know they also support some other DBMS like PostgreSQL, MySQL, Sybase, DB2 and SQLite.

Steps:

1. Select Tools > DB > Reverse Database... from the toolbar of Visual Paradigm
2. Keep the settings as is and click Next Select PostgreSQL as driver and provide the driver file there. You can simply click on the download link there to get the driver.
3. Enter the hostname, database name, user and password, and then click Next
4. They will then study your database and lists out the tables in it.
5. Select the table to form an ERD and continue, and that's it. An ERD will be generated with the tables you selected presented.

BTW they also support generating and updating database schema from ERD.

Hope this helps. :-)

More information about generating ERD from PostgreSQL database

ERBuilder can generate ER diagram from PostgreSQL databases (reverse engineer feature).

Below step to follow to generate an ER diagram:

• Click on Menu -> File -> reverse engineer

• Click on new connection

• Fill in PostgresSQL connection information

• Click on OK

• Click on next

• Select objects (tables, triggers, sequences…..) that you want to reverse engineer.

• Click on next.

• If you are using trial version, your ERD will be displayed automatically.
• If your are using the free edition you need to drag and drop the tables from the treeview placed in the left side of application

Another option is use Oracle SQL Developer. Two steps as below:

(1) First of all, you need to connect SQL Developer to your PostgreSQL database.

(2) Then you can generate an entity-relationship (ER) diagram using SQL Developer

Perhaps have a look at AquaFold's Aqua Data Studio. It is a database IDE with entity-relationship diagramming. It also includes data profiling. It is not free but its price is very reasonable considering its capabilities.

I use DrawERD for ERD & DB doc. https://drawerd.com

postgresql_autodoc is a cli for doing this. Doesnt do cardinality, but none of the above mentioned GUI tools do as well.