Re: Windows 2016 server crashed after changes in Postgres 15.8 pgAdmin

> On Thu, 21 Nov 2024, 17:46 Daniel Gustafsson, <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
> > On 21 Nov 2024, at 04:22, Sanjay Khatri <sanjaykhatri218(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > We tried it on another server with similar configurations.
> > Just installed the Postgres 15 and its PgAdmin.
> > Kept the server ONN for the whole day, the server was okay.
> > But then we tried the pgAdmin workaround by deleting the pgAdmin.bak file in 'AppData/Roaming/pgAdmin' and restarted the PgAdmin.
> > Soon within an hour the server crashed. Its happening when PgAdmin workaround is performed.
> > Do Let me know if someone else faced the same issue?
>
> Just to make sure we're talking about the same thing. Did Windows crash and
> required a restart when you removed a file from pgAdmin, or did the server get
> bricked and refused to boot at all with systems diagnostics issues?
>
> On 21 Nov 2024, at 14:50, Sanjay Khatri <sanjaykhatri218(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Yes we are talking about same thing.
> But this time a different server with Similar configuration.
> On deleting the pgAdmin.bak file after which I restarted pgAdmin. But after an hour or two, the machine crashed and refuses to boot.

If removing a file from pgAdmin can brick your server (regardless of it being
standard operating procedure or not), then I think it's something which the
pgAdmin developers should be made aware of.

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Daniel Gustafsson