Wording improvements for pg_ctl manual page.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml
index c00e63ed9626c38739ee79db5bdb9fb8db3b2a74..2c01e1273d3487486fe58f9137854085552920e9 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
      
       The existence of this file in the data directory is used to help
       pg_ctl determine if the server is
-      currently running or not.
+      currently running.
      
     
    
@@ -536,8 +536,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
    
 
    
-    An example of starting the server, blocking until the server has
-    come up is:
+    An example of starting the server, and waiting until the server is
+    accepting connection:
 
 $ pg_ctl -w start
 
@@ -555,11 +555,12 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
   
    Stopping the Server
    
+    To stop the server, use:
 
 $ pg_ctl stop
 
-    stops the server. Using the -m switch allows one
-    to control how the backend shuts down.
+    The -m option allows control over
+    how the server shuts down.
    
   
 
@@ -568,7 +569,7 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
 
    
     Restarting the server is almost equivalent to stopping the
-    server and starting it again
+    server and starting it again,
     except that pg_ctl saves and reuses the command line options that
     were passed to the previously running instance.  To restart
     the server in the simplest form, use:
@@ -579,14 +580,14 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
 
    
     To restart the server,
-    waiting for it to shut down and come up again:
+    waiting for it to shut down and restart:
 
 $ pg_ctl -w restart
 
    
 
    
-    To restart using port 5433 and disabling fsync after restarting:
+    To restart using port 5433 and disabe fsync upon restart:
 
 $ pg_ctl -o "-F -p 5433" restart
 
@@ -597,7 +598,7 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
    Showing the Server Status
 
    
-    Here is a sample status output from
+    Here is sample status output from
     pg_ctl:
 
 $ pg_ctl status