| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Cliff Nieuwenhuis <cliff(at)nieusite(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [NOVICE] encoding problems |
| Date: | 2008-05-07 18:15:14 |
| Message-ID: | 20080507181514.GH20150@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > If you start counting every line from the start of the current column,
> > it will align correctly regardless of the previous columns.
>
> At this stage you don't know the width of previous columns because you
> don't know if a very wide value is coming in a later row, so there is no
> way to output the width of the cell with a tab you are looking at now.
>
> Unless I am misunderstanding you.
Surely psql computes the width of all cells before printing anything.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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