On 14 Oct 2011, at 12:25, Kalai R wrote: > Hi, > > I am facing this strange problem where my postgres service couldn't start because of some missing dll files in installation directory's bin folder. > I copied files from other machine and it start working again. After some time the same problem appeared again on system reboot. > I have no idea what causes these files to be deleted automatically. Please help if anyone has faced this kind of situation. > > I' m using version 9.0 on Windows 7 Probably the same issue as in " Tablespace files deleted during continuous run", or at least very similar in nature. * Check that you don't have anti-virus software that (correctly or incorrectly) identified those dll's as infected with a virus and removed them. * Check that your file-system is undamaged. * Check that windows hasn't been restoring a checkpoint with those dll's not installed. If the database wasn't installed on a local file-system, check that the remote file-system is functioning properly and doesn't cache an old state or something similarly silly. Postgres doesn't remove any dll's, so it's some external factor at play here. Alban Hertroys -- Screwing up is an excellent way to attach something to the ceiling. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
