Re: Anti virus scanning for Postgres database servers

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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