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Bruce Momjian wrote: > 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. > > Alvaro, using spaces instead of the terminal hard tabs was a very good > idea. The output is now: > > test=> \x > Expanded display is on. > > test=> \df+ xx > List of functions > -[ RECORD 1 ]-------+-------------------- > Schema | public > Name | xx > Result data type | text > Argument data types | > Volatility | volatile > Owner | postgres > Language | sql > Source code | SELECT 'a'::text > : WHERE 1 = 1 > Description | > > > Patch attached. It substitutes spaces for the tab. > > -- > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us > EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com > > + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + > > -- > Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches
