Re: Change definitions of bitmap flags to bit-shifting style - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: Change definitions of bitmap flags to bit-shifting style
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In response to Re: Change definitions of bitmap flags to bit-shifting style  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
Responses Re: Change definitions of bitmap flags to bit-shifting style
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On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 10:31:09PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> The hexadecimal representation is more natural to me than bit-shifting,
> so I would prefer to use that style too.  But maybe I'm trained to it
> because of looking at t_infomask symbols constantly.

If we are going to change all that, hexa style sounds good to me too.
Would it be worth an addition to the docs, say in [1] to tell that
this is a preferred style?

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/source-conventions.html?
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Michael

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