On 12/15/20 11:26 AM, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-12-15 at 10:00 -0600, Ron wrote:
>>> After abrupt shutdown of Windows, we are seeing the pg_ctl.exe file getting deleted automatically.
>>
>> Only pg_ctl.exe gets deleted? Anyway, there's nothing in Postgres that says "delete pg_ctl.exe on startup".
>> This smells strongly of filesystem corruption which requires a Windows guru.
> Not that I am one, but this smacks of anti-virus software that mistakenly
> thinks "pg_ctl.exe" is malware and removes or "isolates" it.
OP mentioned that they checked that AV didn't "delete" the file. Nothing
about quarantine, though.
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