The new BITFIELD seems like it could be really cool, but I can't quite figure out the use case. Anybody planning on using that that can enlighten me? Thanks.
From what I read, BITFIELD behaves differently -- it treats your data as a series of "packed" bits. So while with BITSET you operate on each bit individually, with BITFIELD you operate on a series of bits with a starting offset, and you have to be mindful of the length.