On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 10:28 PM Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
Note that the pg_ctl path is quoted, and those quotes are passed through to cmd.exe. That's what makes it work. It's possibly not worth changing it now, but if anything that's the change that should have been made here.
The OP claimed that the printed command was not working 'as-is', which is a valid complaint.
Quoting the command seems like a complete answer for this, as it will solve problems with spaces and such for both Windows and Unix-like systems.