Re: "could not stat file "base/17436/119145": Permission denied" when performing pg_database_size() on windows with 8.4.0

From: Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
Cc: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, pgeu-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: "could not stat file "base/17436/119145": Permission denied" when performing pg_database_size() on windows with 8.4.0
Date: 2010-01-31 16:05:45
Message-ID: db471ace1001310805v6073cc92l62c9bda7658bf3cf@mail.gmail.com
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Hi Stefan,

> that is usually caused by missbehaving antovirussoftware that tries to do
> "on-access" scanning. Try excluding PGDATA from whatever you have there - or
> even better deinstall...

It may well be misbehaving anti-virus software (this machine is not a
dedicated database server). I've added an exclusion rule to PGDATA.

Thanks,
Peter Geoghegan

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