greenplum-syscat-ref

Greenplum System Catalog Reference

View the generated content:

• http://stephendotcarter.github.io/greenplum-syscat-ref

Introduction

This code can be used to generate HTML docs and diagrams of the Greenplum system catalog tables. The content is generated based on the catalog JSON files found here:

• https://github.com/greenplum-db/gpdb/tree/master/gpMgmt/bin/gppylib/data

Example Diagram

Requirements

• graphviz (specificlly "dot" package)
  • http://www.graphviz.org/Download.php

Instructions

1. git clone https://github.com/stephendotcarter/greenplum-syscat-ref.git
2. pip install -r requirements.txt
3. mkdir -p html/img
4. python generate_content.py data/5.0.json
5. cd html
6. python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
7. Connect to http://localhost:8000