"Dann Corbit" <DCorbit@connx.com> writes:
>> To be honest, the concept that a widget requires a constant that can't
>> be changed later is also a bit odd.
> Not when the data itself is a constant that cannot be changed.
Surely this case is not sufficiently important to justify designing
your entire application (not to mention the client/server protocol)
around it. You're always going to have variable-width columns in there
somewhere.
regards, tom lane