diff --git a/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.sh b/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.sh
index fcb4cf31d748e97f5aa27883145203a2c3cd1076..0292d3ec32aaf2fe8b08709cc3946af4d5ddefe4 100755
--- a/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.sh
+++ b/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #
 #
 # IDENTIFICATION
-#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/bin/pg_ctl/Attic/pg_ctl.sh,v 1.25 2001/09/29 03:09:32 momjian Exp $
+#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/bin/pg_ctl/Attic/pg_ctl.sh,v 1.26 2002/07/19 13:50:06 momjian Exp $
 #
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -332,12 +332,12 @@ if [ "$op" = "start" -o "$op" = "restart" ];then
     fi
 
     if [ -n "$logfile" ]; then
-        "$po_path" "$@" </dev/null >>$logfile 2>&1 &
+        "$po_path" ${1:+"$@"} </dev/null >>$logfile 2>&1 &
     else
         # when starting without log file, redirect stderr to stdout, so
         # pg_ctl can be invoked with >$logfile and still have pg_ctl's
         # stderr on the terminal.
-        "$po_path" "$@" </dev/null 2>&1 &
+        "$po_path" ${1:+"$@"} </dev/null 2>&1 &
     fi
 
     # if had an old lockfile, check to see if we were able to start
diff --git a/src/bin/pgaccess/main.tcl b/src/bin/pgaccess/main.tcl
index 1a3d84e7eb120d3425b6f5c9290af630c3af7e82..37f30d96fa0a0bffef37390cc6a49aa6cc866fb7 100644
--- a/src/bin/pgaccess/main.tcl
+++ b/src/bin/pgaccess/main.tcl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # the next line restarts using wish \
-exec wish "$0" "$@"
+exec wish "$0" ${1:+"$@"}
 
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