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.