diff --git a/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c b/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c
index e0962dfb8bea1172aa3b58071da8fb43e95c4994..dbba0ac14e21198c7b787005445b430ffd198cdb 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2003, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  *
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c,v 1.10 2004/06/10 17:26:14 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c,v 1.11 2004/06/10 17:45:09 momjian Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -232,7 +232,11 @@ start_postmaster(void)
 				 SYSTEMQUOTE, postgres_path, post_opts, DEVNULL, log_file,
 				 SYSTEMQUOTE);
 	else
+#ifndef WIN32
 		snprintf(cmd, MAXPGPATH, "%s\"%s\" %s < \"%s\" 2>&1 &%s",
+#else
+		snprintf(cmd, MAXPGPATH, "START %s\"%s\" %s < \"%s\" 2>&1%s",
+#endif
 				 SYSTEMQUOTE, postgres_path, post_opts, DEVNULL, SYSTEMQUOTE);
 	return system(cmd);
 }