| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> |
| Cc: | soumen rana <soumenrana(dot)06(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Anti virus scanning for Postgres database servers |
| Date: | 2025-09-23 12:03:12 |
| Message-ID: | aNKMgEKo8VDq0mId@momjian.us |
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 08:22:51AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-09-22 at 13:03 -0700, soumen rana wrote:
> > This will mean that the Postgres Installation directories and files will be
> > scanned by Microsoft Defender and quarantine any threats.
> >
> > We have requested to exclude the data directories from the Antivirus scanning.
> > Is anyone aware of any performance, operational, or data-loss related
> > challenges with Anti Virus scanning of Postgres binaries?
>
> I think that should be safe, at least until Microsoft starts to perceive
> PostgreSQL as a threat...
Uh, if the anti-virus software does not modify any files, you are likely
to get false positives when the antivirus software thinks Postgres data
is a virus. If the anti-virus software modifies the data directory in
any way, you are likely to get database corruption or a non-operational
database.
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