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. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches
