We can confirm that the file is not deleted by antivirus.
When windows is shutdown abruptly, we are noticing this issue.
We will post this query in pgsql-general and check if someone else has encountered the same issue.
Regards,
Joel
From: Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@enterprisedb.com>
Sent: 03 December 2020 19:14
To: Joel Mariadasan (jomariad) <jomariad@cisco.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>; Tejaswini L (tlingach) <tlingach@cisco.com>; Balakumaran Swaminathan (balsamin) <balsamin@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: pg_ctl.exe file deleted automatically
Hi,
We are using Windows 2019 server.
Sometimes we see the pg_ctl.exe getting automatically deleted.
Due to this, while starting up Postgres windows service we are getting the error.
“Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified”
Can you let us know the potential causes for this pg_ctl.exe file deletion?
PostgreSQL will never delete pg_ctl.exe
Check your antivirus software logs for false positives.
This mailing list is for software development on postgres so I suggest following up on pgsql-general.