From: George Weaver <georgew1@mts.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: Louise Cofield <lcofield@box-works.com>
Subject: Re: Looks are important
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:29:31 -0600
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Hi Tom,
Switching to a fixed-width font did the trick.
Thanks for the help.
George
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "George Weaver" <georgew1@mts.net>
Cc: "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com>; <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>; "Louise
Cofield" <lcofield@box-works.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: [SQL] Looks are important
> "George Weaver" <georgew1@mts.net> writes:
> > ... the ' 's are not quite the same width as=
> > an ordinary number or letter. Thus the physical display length of "30
cha=
> > racters" (padded) can vary from row to row. The result is that the kinds
do=
> > n't necessary line up neatly. I need to concatenate the two as they are
be=
> > ing displayed as one column in a drop down combobox.
>
> Use a fixed-width font.
>
> > Is what I'm trying to do possible???
>
> Not with a variable-width font that you haven't even told us the exact
> character widths of ...
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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