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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