pg_ctl.exe
Summary
PostgreSQL Control - starts, stops, and manages PostgreSQL database server instances.
pg_ctl.exe is the 1231st most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,216 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from D:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server\packages\pgsql.20223.22.1108.0821\bin and it is most often launched by java.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- D:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server\packages\pgsql.20223.22.1108.0821\bin97.2%
- C:\Program Files\UEMS_CentralServer\pgsql\bin1.07%
- C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.5\bin0.41%
- D:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server\packages\pgsql.20223.23.0214.1014\bin0.41%
- C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\15\bin0.33%
- C:\...0.25%
- D:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server\packages\pgsql.20231.23.0711.1149\bin0.25%
- C:\Program Files\ManageEngine\OpManager\pgsql\bin0.08%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 8646b44dd170318aa0fd4a30dd80f33734c83dae81acae2eff8e3472cc3a830397.62%
- 004fae8c5efc42c5df0a039d00f4cc1058f685bcfea10cc9570e2ed19200b8211.07%
- 7cdc63a2cadc12e6b54972b52b14bf7c12e2aa79527f354f2d30694b0d0523960.41%
- 788a39e55d9e6c9b9a7fe1a2e56e9e1b81c7711b7adb75ee431e1015d12b9f990.25%
- 79be1fe1c3ea9f96b659cd77c261132c680f79ae1a241109000087dd922195c30.25%
- a21401372d27921cdc4ad3f9b2824d3039747ed4b4e81611116a7e176844b9ec0.25%
- 43989607d78159c343ff0848e364249491a277d1bb2e114a54633ac8d45ebdc40.08%
- 63658a12bcc79bd5fa14f17e4760f9915bbfb48213d7f4826e9defc6d270867d0.08%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe50%
- python.exe37.5%
- cscript.exe12.5%
Top Parents
- java.exe0.74%
- cmd.exe0.49%
- services.exe0.49%
- javaw.exe0.41%
Top Children
- postgres.exe60.61%
- cmd.exe39.39%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.