Embedded Postgresql refuses to start

[NassimBounouas]

Describe the bug

For few days I'm working on alf.io development without any problems and since this evening I can't start embedded postgresql. I tried to reclone the project and it's the same result :

gradlew startEmbeddedPgSQL

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For more details see https://docs.gradle.org/4.10.2/release-notes.html

Starting a Gradle Daemon, 1 stopped Daemon could not be reused, use --status for details

> Task :startEmbeddedPgSQL FAILED
Failed to extract file set
java.lang.NullPointerException: executable is NULL
[...]
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file 'C:\####\####\####\alf.io\build.gradle' line: 336

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':startEmbeddedPgSQL'.
> java.lang.NullPointerException (no error message)

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BUILD FAILED in 7s
1 actionable task: 1 executed

Has someone experienced that problem ?

Thanks

[syjer]

Hi @NassimBounouas , could you try to set a specific version to the following plugin:

classpath 'ru.yandex.qatools.embed:postgresql-embedded:+'

For example:

classpath 'ru.yandex.qatools.embed:postgresql-embedded:2.9'

(you can try the various versions at:

https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:ru.yandex.qatools.embed%20AND%20a:postgresql-embedded&core=gav

).

Alternatively, it's to remove the caches from the plugin (which I don't know where it unpack the files under windows :( )

[NassimBounouas]

Hi @syjer, removing the cache didn't fix the problem but setting the version to 2.9 did. Thank you. Maybe it could be done on the repo to avoid problems for other contributors ?

[syjer]

thank you for checking @NassimBounouas :). Yes, we will fix the version to 2.9

[syjer]

done, thank you @NassimBounouas 👍