Re: [NOVICE] pg_ctl command option anomalies

Neha Khatri <nehakhatri5@gmail.com> writes:
> Some of the pg_ctl modes do not require following options:
>   -m, -w, -t, -c, -l, -o, -p

Um ... all of those except -c and -w require an argument AFAIK.  Where did
you read that they don't?

The pg_ctl man page does seem to need some work, for instance -t is shown
as requiring an argument in the syntax synopsis, and the textual
description implies that it has one, but

-t
--timeout

should look more like

-t seconds
--timeout=seconds

But on the whole I'd bet that discrepancies of this sort are documentation
bugs not code bugs.

            regards, tom lane