Re: dll files missing in postgrsql bin folder in Windows

From: Kalai R <softlinne(dot)kv(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: dll files missing in postgrsql bin folder in Windows
Date: 2011-10-14 23:59:19
Message-ID: CAGxuanOrg2jo4nesdwjhvBuSEABoQXdfagWnT3x=wTNPxFRM8w@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

I find out the problem.
Windows has been restoring a checkpoint with those dll's not installed.

I don't know how to inatall dll.
Please help me to install those dll's in windows.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Alban Hertroys <haramrae(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On 14 Oct 2011, at 12:25, Kalai R wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am facing this strange problem where my postgres service couldn't start
> because of some missing dll files in installation directory's bin folder.
> > I copied files from other machine and it start working again. After some
> time the same problem appeared again on system reboot.
> > I have no idea what causes these files to be deleted automatically.
> Please help if anyone has faced this kind of situation.
> >
> > I' m using version 9.0 on Windows 7
>
>
> Probably the same issue as in "[GENERAL] Tablespace files deleted during
> continuous run", or at least very similar in nature.
>
> * Check that you don't have anti-virus software that (correctly or
> incorrectly) identified those dll's as infected with a virus and removed
> them.
> * Check that your file-system is undamaged.
> * Check that windows hasn't been restoring a checkpoint with those dll's
> not installed.
>
> If the database wasn't installed on a local file-system, check that the
> remote file-system is functioning properly and doesn't cache an old state or
> something similarly silly.
>
> Postgres doesn't remove any dll's, so it's some external factor at play
> here.
>
> Alban Hertroys
>
> --
> Screwing up is an excellent way to attach something to the ceiling.
>
>

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