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Asked: 2026-05-18T12:28:40+00:00

Initially I ran this code without the leading cmd and I received an access

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Initially I ran this code without the leading "cmd" and I received an access denied message. Postgres is being run as a service by an account that cannot be logged into and I am an administrator running this application. The attempt with "cmd" included returns me no input. My question is how do I go about executing these statements to achieve the resulting files and data changes?

 String[] psqlCommands = {"cmd ",postgresLocation, " -dDatabase ", " -UUser ",
                "-c ",  "UPDATE host.user SET service = 1 WHERE service = 1;" +
                        "UPDATE host.permission SET service = 1 WHERE service = 2"};
       Runtime.getRuntime().exec(psqlCommands);

        String[] pgDumpCommands = {"cmd ", postgresLocation, " --data-only ",
                "-t host.user_info -t host.permission -t host.group -t host.account -t host.password " +
                        "-UUser Database> "
                        + DATA + "\\dataExport.sql"};

        Runtime.getRuntime().exec(pgDumpCommands);

The exception that is generated is an Access Denied exception that is on the Postgres_Bin directory. I will post a trace once I get the necessary materials.

Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "d:\program f
iles\postgres\bin": CreateProcess error=5, Access is denied
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source)
at Thing.main(Thing.java:85)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=5, Access is denied
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(Unknown Source)
... 4 more

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  1. Editorial Team

    java.io.IOException: Cannot run program “d:\program files\postgres\bin”

    This error indicates that the spaces in the path confuse the exec() call (and the directory bin is indeed nothing that Windows can run)

    Make sure you enclose the full path to the .exe with double quotes because of the spaces.

    I think using ProcessBuilder is recommended over using exec() as you can specify the arguments and the program to run with different parameters avoiding the escaping of path names with spaces.

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