Re: Extension Developing Roadmap

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 5:24 PM Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:

On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 12:20 PM Ashesh Vashi <ashesh.vashi@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

On Sun, 10 Mar 2019, 11:45 Batuhan Osman Taşkaya, <batuhanosmantaskaya@gmail.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 asked him to refer these modules as they're also using external utilities to do the job.