Re: Backup and Restore options disabled in 1.6

Ryan Holmes wrote:
> Hi Dave, thanks for the response.
> 
> I can't get to the XP machine right now to verify, but I literally just 
> clicked "next" during the install so it should be completely vanilla. On 
> the 2003 machine, yes, pg_dump.exe and pg_restore.exe are in the  same 
> directory as pgAdmin.exe (the 2003 machine is x64 btw, so pgAdmin is 
> under "Program Files (x86)" if that makes any difference).
> 
> I got the backup and restore options working on the 2003 machine by 
> adding the Postres 8.2 bin directory to my path. I can verify the 
> location of pg_dump.exe and pg_restore.exe on the XP machine on Monday, 
> but I'll be pretty surprised if they're not in the install directory 
> alongside pgAdmin.exe.
> 
> The only potentially "unusual" thing I can think of about my 1.6 install 
> is that I first uninstalled 1.4.3 (on both machines). I assumed it would 
> be cleaner if anything, but maybe something's weird in the registry and 
> pgAdmin doesn't know its install location(?).

Further investigation shows that this is actually a bug in the version 
of wxWidgets that 1.6.0 is linked with. It seems to be resolved in 
2.8.0-rc1, so future versions of pgAdmin should work fine.

The workaround, is to add a directory (such as the pgAdmin dir, or 
PostgreSQL bin dir) to your system path.

Regards, Dave.