Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> I think the behaviour would be better if we were able to only break on
> words, and make columns wider on those where words wouldn't fit.
select repeat('xyzzy', 100000);
Now admittedly our current handling of this isn't all that great either,
but you can't design around the assumption that a nice break will always
be possible.
regards, tom lane