Tom Lane wrote:
> And I still find the premise entirely unconvincing.
> Maybe the user *wants* to see the local behavior of shift, whatever
> it might be.  It's certainly not impossible that we'd break applications
> that worked fine before (at least on the hardware they were being
> used on).

Certainly someone who uses shift operators is more prone to accept 
architecture-dependent behaviors.  Those who like to take a more abstract 
view can use regular arithmetic.

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