Karl Denninger escribió: > The individual boolean fields don't kill me and in terms of some of the > application issues they're actually rather easy to code for. > > The problem with re-coding for them is extensibility (by those who > install and administer the package); a mask leaves open lots of extra > bits for "site-specific" use, where hard-coding booleans does not, and > since the executable is a binary it instantly becomes a huge problem for > everyone but me. Did you try hiding the bitmask operations inside a function as Tom suggested? -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
