Re: Extension Developing Roadmap

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 5:24 PM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

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> On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 12:20 PM Ashesh Vashi <
> ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, 10 Mar 2019, 11:45 Batuhan Osman Taşkaya, <
>> batuhanosmantaskaya(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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No - it should not be made part of the backup/restore dialogues.
I asked him to refer these modules as they're also using external utilities
to do the job.

-- Thanks, Ashesh

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