Re: [pgAdmin4][Patch]: Background process executor won't run(in case of Backup, restore) in Windows only

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Ashesh Vashi <ashesh.vashi@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 5:59 AM, Surinder Kumar
<surinder.kumar@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Actually It doesn't broke anywhere, instead It runs successfully. On
> debugging I found that it runs the subprocess.Popen() utility but it doesn't
> run internally the pg_dump utitliy. On running the same command on windows
> cmd prompt it works.
> Then on setting parameters close_fds=False and cmd_shell=True, It works.
> I ran backup in Google Chrome.

It certainly runs pg_dump for me - I see the output in the monitoring
dialogue, and I get a dump file at the end.

I also use Chrome.

It may differ for different version of python.

Maybe. I'm using 2.7. 

Either way, I don't want a command window flashing up unnecessarily.

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