Re: Issue with pgAdmin4 not finding pg_dump

Hi Anthony,

pgAdmin officially doesn't ship on snap. You need to contact the respective
person.

On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 2:28 AM anthony.flury <anthony(dot)flury(at)btinternet(dot)com>
wrote:

> Aditya,
>
> Just a thought,
>
> Could this be an issue with the pgadmin being a snap deliverable - I know
> that snap does some odd things with sandboxing.
>
> Thank you for your support so far.
>
> --
>
> Anthony Flury
> On 26/09/2024 04:28, Aditya Toshniwal wrote:
>
> Hi Anthony,
>
> Please share your binary config and pgAdmin about screenshots.
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 7:58 PM anthony.flury <
> anthony(dot)flury(at)btinternet(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> all of the executables have world read, write and execute permissions (as
>> expected) so I can't see that being the problem.
>>
>> the pg_dump program links to /usr/share/postgresql-common/pg_wrapper
>> which also has world execute permission - so that isn't a problem either.
>>
>>
>> On 25/09/2024 13:23, Aditya Toshniwal wrote:
>>
>> Hi Anthony,
>>
>> It looks like pgAdmin is not able to access the files for execute
>> permissions. Can you check once?
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 4:42 PM anthony.flury <
>> anthony(dot)flury(at)btinternet(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>> The validate claims that the files aren't there.
>>>
>>> Although this is clearly incorrect since the files are there and can be
>>> executed without the need sudo or any other privelege execution.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 24/09/2024 10:52, Aditya Toshniwal wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Anthony,
>>>
>>> What is the output of validate in preferences -> binary paths?
>>>
>>> [image: image.png]
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 2:28 PM anthony.flury <
>>> anthony(dot)flury(at)btinternet(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am trying to do a simple backup of my PostGreSql 12 database via
>>>> pgAdmin4 (v 8.12) on Ubuntu 22.04
>>>>
>>>> In Preferences I have the path for PostGre 12 set to '/usr/bin/', and I
>>>> have confirmed that that pg_dump utility exists in /usr/bin directory, and
>>>> I can run pg_dump from the command line.
>>>>
>>>> However when I select 'backup' for my database in pgAdmin4, it
>>>> generates an error saying `/usr/bin/pg_dump' not found (despite it being
>>>> there).
>>>>
>>>> What is the problem here ?
>>>> --
>>>> Anthony Flury
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>> Aditya Toshniwal
>>> pgAdmin Hacker | Sr. Software Architect | *enterprisedb.com*
>>> <https://www.enterprisedb.com/>
>>> "Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE"
>>>
>>> --
>>> Anthony Flury
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>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Aditya Toshniwal
>> pgAdmin Hacker | Sr. Software Architect | *enterprisedb.com*
>> <https://www.enterprisedb.com/>
>> "Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE"
>>
>> --
>> Anthony Flury
>> *Moble*: +44 07743 282707
>> *Home*: +44 (0)1206 391294
>> *email*: anthony(dot)flury(at)btinternet(dot)com
>>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Aditya Toshniwal
> pgAdmin Hacker | Sr. Software Architect | *enterprisedb.com*
> <https://www.enterprisedb.com/>
> "Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE"
>
> --
> Anthony Flury
> *Moble*: +44 07743 282707
> *Home*: +44 (0)1206 391294
> *email*: anthony(dot)flury(at)btinternet(dot)com
>

--
Thanks,
Aditya Toshniwal
pgAdmin Hacker | Sr. Software Architect | *enterprisedb.com*
<https://www.enterprisedb.com/>
"Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE"