[reportlab-users] Infinite Loop in tables

[Henning von Bargen]

Hi,

I have encountered the following problem using Tables in a production
environment:

If the header line plus the first data line do not fit entirely on the page,
an infinite loop occurs.

This is likely to happen when generating tables with DB data
where some cells contain long strings, for example a descriptive text.

This is causing performance problems on the application server.
As a last resort, I have modified the _splitRows method for Table
so that it raises an exception when this happens and availHeight > 5cm.

Is there any option that allows to split the CELLS inside the row
so that the first part of the row will be printed on the current page
and the rest will overflow to the next row?

Henning