diff --git a/src/redis.c b/src/redis.c
index cc6edd73ee560b22da214a37b64eca16179d81b4..53583a0a9742b852b58157f9f3b216816ba3adc3 100644
--- a/src/redis.c
+++ b/src/redis.c
@@ -773,16 +773,11 @@ void createSharedObjects(void) {
     shared.space = createObject(REDIS_STRING,sdsnew(" "));
     shared.colon = createObject(REDIS_STRING,sdsnew(":"));
     shared.plus = createObject(REDIS_STRING,sdsnew("+"));
-    shared.select0 = createStringObject("select 0\r\n",10);
-    shared.select1 = createStringObject("select 1\r\n",10);
-    shared.select2 = createStringObject("select 2\r\n",10);
-    shared.select3 = createStringObject("select 3\r\n",10);
-    shared.select4 = createStringObject("select 4\r\n",10);
-    shared.select5 = createStringObject("select 5\r\n",10);
-    shared.select6 = createStringObject("select 6\r\n",10);
-    shared.select7 = createStringObject("select 7\r\n",10);
-    shared.select8 = createStringObject("select 8\r\n",10);
-    shared.select9 = createStringObject("select 9\r\n",10);
+
+    for (j = 0; j < REDIS_SHARED_SELECT_CMDS; j++) {
+        shared.select[j] = createObject(REDIS_STRING,
+            sdscatprintf(sdsempty(),"select %d\r\n", j));
+    }
     shared.messagebulk = createStringObject("$7\r\nmessage\r\n",13);
     shared.pmessagebulk = createStringObject("$8\r\npmessage\r\n",14);
     shared.subscribebulk = createStringObject("$9\r\nsubscribe\r\n",15);
diff --git a/src/redis.h b/src/redis.h
index e93916c3004692e0a82d23018de8eb22c858003f..f2ca117dfab1a1470732e0996a687d664e085d9b 100644
--- a/src/redis.h
+++ b/src/redis.h
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
 #define REDIS_EXPIRELOOKUPS_PER_CRON    10 /* lookup 10 expires per loop */
 #define REDIS_MAX_WRITE_PER_EVENT (1024*64)
 #define REDIS_REQUEST_MAX_SIZE (1024*1024*256) /* max bytes in inline command */
+#define REDIS_SHARED_SELECT_CMDS 10
 #define REDIS_SHARED_INTEGERS 10000
 #define REDIS_REPLY_CHUNK_BYTES (5*1500) /* 5 TCP packets with default MTU */
 #define REDIS_INLINE_MAX_SIZE   (1024*64) /* Max size of inline reads */
@@ -372,8 +373,7 @@ struct sharedObjectsStruct {
     *colon, *nullbulk, *nullmultibulk, *queued,
     *emptymultibulk, *wrongtypeerr, *nokeyerr, *syntaxerr, *sameobjecterr,
     *outofrangeerr, *loadingerr, *plus,
-    *select0, *select1, *select2, *select3, *select4,
-    *select5, *select6, *select7, *select8, *select9,
+    *select[REDIS_SHARED_SELECT_CMDS],
     *messagebulk, *pmessagebulk, *subscribebulk, *unsubscribebulk, *mbulk3,
     *mbulk4, *psubscribebulk, *punsubscribebulk,
     *integers[REDIS_SHARED_INTEGERS];
diff --git a/src/replication.c b/src/replication.c
index 2e441f5baf8034387efeb1050720649dfded92a4..e0d4aeffdc3da82e4d7cf4385012d659de24bd88 100644
--- a/src/replication.c
+++ b/src/replication.c
@@ -25,24 +25,15 @@ void replicationFeedSlaves(list *slaves, int dictid, robj **argv, int argc) {
         if (slave->slaveseldb != dictid) {
             robj *selectcmd;
 
-            switch(dictid) {
-            case 0: selectcmd = shared.select0; break;
-            case 1: selectcmd = shared.select1; break;
-            case 2: selectcmd = shared.select2; break;
-            case 3: selectcmd = shared.select3; break;
-            case 4: selectcmd = shared.select4; break;
-            case 5: selectcmd = shared.select5; break;
-            case 6: selectcmd = shared.select6; break;
-            case 7: selectcmd = shared.select7; break;
-            case 8: selectcmd = shared.select8; break;
-            case 9: selectcmd = shared.select9; break;
-            default:
+            if (dictid >= 0 && dictid < REDIS_SHARED_SELECT_CMDS) {
+                incrRefCount(shared.select[dictid]);
+                selectcmd = shared.select[dictid];
+            } else {
                 selectcmd = createObject(REDIS_STRING,
                     sdscatprintf(sdsempty(),"select %d\r\n",dictid));
-                selectcmd->refcount = 0;
-                break;
             }
             addReply(slave,selectcmd);
+            decrRefCount(selectcmd);
             slave->slaveseldb = dictid;
         }
         addReplyMultiBulkLen(slave,argc);