On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Ashesh Vashi < ashesh.va...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Hi Dave, > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Ashesh Vashi < >> ashesh.va...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Dave, >>> >>> Please find the patch to resolve the issue reported in RM #1679 >>> <https://redmine.postgresql.org/issues/1679> >>> >>> This will take care of: >>> - Find the appropriate available Python interpreter to execute the >>> process_executor.py. >>> In case of WSGI or Runtime, it was not properly find the interpreter >>> required to execute that script. Also, on windows - we should give priority >>> to the windowless python interpreter (if available). >>> - Execute the process_executor.py script with proper platform dependent >>> flags to run it as daemon. >>> - Run the process_executor.py in proper daemon mode. It helps to run the >>> long running processes like backup, restore, etc. >>> On windows, run the process_executor.py from process_executor.py in >>> detached mode to allow the child process to run in detached mode. >>> On POSIX, fork the process_executor.py to allow the child process to >>> run in daemon mode. >>> Also - listen the signal like SIGINT, SIGTERM, so that - the child >>> does not kill, or hangup (It used to happen. >>> >>> >>> NOTE: >>> This patch does not take care of the unicode errors in the path. I will >>> send a separate patch for the same. >>> >> >> Unfortunately my first test of this failed: >> >> SERVER_MODE = False >> Python 2.7.11 (Mac default) >> Running in Chrome >> >> I ran a backup of a database, and got the green backup initiated popup... >> then, nothing. Upon checking my config, I found I had the PostgreSQL Bin >> Path set to "$DIR/a/b/c", which clearly won't work. So, we're not yet >> detecting failure to start a process properly. >> > During exception handling, the logger's encoding was not set properly > during initialisation, that was resulting into an error. > > Also - sometime the process execution does not start quickly enough to > list down the process execution properly. > Hence - we should check the process list after some time. > > Please find the update patch with the above both problems resolved. > Same results with the new patch - either with a correct bin path or an incorrect one, I see the green notification that the backup has started, then nothing. Sidenote: I don't even see anything at all in the console output. I think we should at least spit out a debug message showing the command line we're executing the launcher with, and ideally include any other details we can such as job IDs etc. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company