| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| 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 18:46:28 |
| Message-ID: | 200805071846.m47IkSe18530@momjian.us |
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> > > Surely psql computes the width of all cells before printing anything.
> >
> > It does, but if you have a value that has a tab, how do you know what
> > tab stop you are on because you don't know the final width of the
> > previous columns at that time, so there is no way to know the width of
> > that cell.
>
> My point is that you don't need to align the tabstops with the start of
> the line, but with the start of the _column_. So the width of the
> previous column doesn't matter.
OK, so I am not really using tabs in the output, but outputting the
proper number of spaces to make it look like a tab? That works. Let me
try it.
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