Great eyes! It was copied & pasted out of some running notes & screenshots of the process I was keeping in an OO file. You're a lot more "helpful" than it was :) Thanks so much for taking the time to look at this. Now, on to the next hurdle - getting pg_ctl to run as an automated service... > Aaaah... your typeface just gave me a clue. > It's impossible for me to tell if the issue above > is just your mail client being "helpful" or if it was > present in the original command line, but look at > the hyphens before "locale=C". > > I bet you wrote your original command line in a word > processor like MS Word, or copied and pasted it via > there at some point. Maybe even Outlook does it. > Either way, that program was "helping" you. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general