Re: Issue with pgAdmin4 not finding pg_dump

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 ?
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>
>
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> Thanks,
> Aditya Toshniwal
> pgAdmin Hacker | Sr. Software Architect | *enterprisedb.com*
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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"