Is there a way to turn off the autostart of the sql database when you turn on your computer? Its a bit of nuisannce to have to keep manually turning it off every time.

Also can you give us some details as to what data this database collects, if its just for pokertracker then why does it need to load at the computer start?

When sql and its related processes are on what exactly does it do? Does it collect data when poker tracker isnt on?

Can running the sql database present a security or privacy risk, especially because sql seems to create its own user profile and runs in that profile?

Sorry if the qs seem silly, I'm not very tech savy. Looking forward to your reply.

You can turn it off if you would like, follow this tutorial and select Manual instead of Automatic.

PostgreSQL by itself doesn't collect any data, it's just a database server. The only data that PT3 puts into it is related to poker hands. When PostgreSQL is installed it automatically starts itself on reboot; PostgreSQL needs to be running in order for PT3 to import data, and originally PT3 couldn't start up PostgreSQL every time so having PostgreSQL running on startup was a good thing.

PostgreSQL should not present any security issue. By default it is configured so that nobody from any other computer can connect to the database. The user profile is created to add an extra level of security, in fact, so that the postgres user can't access other areas of the computer, just the PostgreSQL server.