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From: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
To: soumen rana <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Anti virus scanning for Postgres database servers
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 08:22:51 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+nn5EVhtxMpoG64iKOMW2pSKEQGjpHbS3TiXg04HryXiETibg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+nn5EVhtxMpoG64iKOMW2pSKEQGjpHbS3TiXg04HryXiETibg@mail.gmail.com>

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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