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

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Ashesh Vashi <
> ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 5:59 AM, Surinder Kumar
>>> <surinder(dot)kumar(at)enterprisedb(dot)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.
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> Maybe. I'm using 2.7.
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> Either way, I don't want a command window flashing up unnecessarily.
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If we set the PYTHON INTERPRETER to run the background process.
i.e. BG_PYTHON_INTERPRETER=c:\Python27\pythonw.exe

We can avoid showing the flashing command window.
I came to this conclusion, because - I tried to hide them using certain
flags, but - it wasn't working well.

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