On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
But we're not buying much. A few instructions during postmaster shutdown is entirely negligible.
The patch is for ClosePostmasterPorts(), which is called from every child process startup sequence (as $subject also implies), not in postmaster shutdown. I hope that adds some weight to the argument.