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.