--- On Sat, 2/14/09, Bob Pawley <rjpawley@shaw.ca> wrote:
> From: Bob Pawley <rjpawley@shaw.ca>
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pg_hba reload
> To: "John R Pierce" <pierce@hogranch.com>, "PostgreSQL" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
> Date: Saturday, February 14, 2009, 11:31 PM
> I'm running 8.3 on Windows XP.
>
> I input > pg_ctl reload -D c:\program
> files\postgresql\8.3\data - or any
> combination thereof, with or without brackets and the server
> is running.
>
> The return is - 'pg_ctl: too many command-line
> arguments'.
>
Maybe the problem is te blank space in Program Files
test with pg_ctl reload -D "c:\program files\postgresql\8.3\data"