Re: Anti virus scanning for Postgres database servers

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: 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 06:22:51
Message-ID: c64966a2ebace75cff3c9f9f399f17231c8b3e74.camel@cybertec.at
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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...

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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