Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Or we could do something like
>>
>> port = 0xC000 ^ (DEF_PGPORT & 0x7FFF);
>>
>> which is absolutely guaranteed not to conflict with DEF_PGPORT, at the
>> cost of possibly shifting into the 32K-48K port number range if you
>> had set DEF_PGPORT above 48K.
> I like XOR a lot better than OR.
Yeah, on reflection that seems better. Barring objection I will see
about making this happen in all live branches.
regards, tom lane