Re: Shave a few instructions from child-process startup sequence

Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet(at)singh(dot)im> wrote:
>> Just a small patch; hopefully useful.

> This is valid saving as we are filling array ListenSocket[] in
> StreamServerPort() serially, so during ClosePostmasterPorts() once if
> it encountered PGINVALID_SOCKET, it is valid to break the loop.
> Although savings are small considering this doesn't occur in any
> performance path, still I think this is right thing to do in code.

> It is better to register this patch in CF app list, unless someone
> feels this is not right.

I think this is adding fragility for absolutely no meaningful savings.
The existing code does not depend on the assumption that the array
is filled consecutively and no entries are closed early. Why should
we add such an assumption here?

regards, tom lane