On 2020-Dec-05, Tom Lane wrote: > FWIW, personally I'd vote for doing the exact opposite. When you are > debugging and examining the contents of a bitmask variable, it's easier to > correlate a value like "0x03" with definitions made in the former style. > Or at least I think so; maybe others see it differently.
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.
