[development] Moderation bit behavior

[Earl Miles]

Dries Buytaert wrote:
>
> On 05 Jul 2006, at 18:13, Earl Miles wrote:
>> I'd be in favor of something along these lines:
>>
>> node_flag('moderate') -- returns the name of the flag used for 
>> 'moderate' or NULL if there isn't one.
>> node_flag_register('moderate') -- register the flag during .install, 
>> returns the real fieldname. Returns NULL if no flags are available.
>> node_flag_list() -- return an array of all existing flags
>
> That's over-engineering, IMO.
>
> There is nothing wrong with having separate bit-fields in the 
> database.  It's easy to use, easy to write SQL queries for, and 
> probably faster as you don't have to do binary operations in the SQL 
> queries.  Keep it simple.

I didn't mean for these to be a single bit field, but each one would be 
its own field.