Re: Extension Developing Roadmap

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:12 PM Ashesh Vashi <ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 5:24 PM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 12:20 PM Ashesh Vashi <
>> ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, 10 Mar 2019, 11:45 Batuhan Osman Taşkaya, <
>>> batuhanosmantaskaya(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am trying to add support for pgbackrest tool to pgadmin. I added a
>>>> module local pgadmin repo but i couldn't figure out how to execute a
>>>> command in the server and get the result of command back. How can i develop
>>>> an extension that requires command execution in host server?
>>>>
>>> Please refer the backup module under '<pgadmin-src>/web/pgadmin/tools/'
>>> directory.
>>>
>>
>> Right - there are existing examples of our external process management
>> code, of which the existing backup module is a good example. Any external
>> tools called from pgAdmin should use the same code as it provides
>> monitoring, notifications and output display.
>>
>> For something like pgBackrest though, I wonder if it should actually be
>> made part of the existing backup/restore dialogues anyway. Unless there's a
>> *really* good reason, I'd rather not have multiple backup.restore dialogues
>> in the app.
>>
> No - it should not be made part of the backup/restore dialogues.
>

I disagree.

> I asked him to refer these modules as they're also using external
> utilities to do the job.
>

Yes, I realise that.

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