Re: Crash of Postgresql on Windows

Hello,

well Ｉcouldn't turn off my antivirus since it is controlled by our IT
management team. However, since I rebuilt the indexes, the query has
been running fine. I don't understand what happpened. Before asking for
help, I made sure I could repeat the problem over several reboots.

Emilie Laffray

Richard Huxton wrote:
> Emilie Laffray wrote:
>
>> 3) I have an antivirus running, but again this antivirus has been
>> running for months and I have worked on postgresql also for months.
>> There has been an update yesterday to that antivirus, but I don't think
>> it had an impact.
>>
>
>
>> I tried also in the meantime to run a vacuum, and I got some messages
>> that the indexes had a problem and it was working to fix it. It crashed.
>> I restarted my pc and could perform the vacuum just fine afterwards.
>>
>
> I don't run PG on Windows other than to test, but this definitely sounds
> like antivirus problems to me. They're quite sophisticated nowadays and
> it might be that it takes a certain pattern of activity to trigger it.
>
> Try (1) turning your antivirus off and running the update and if that
> works, (2) excluding all the data directories and PostgreSQL from it's
> checking.
>
>