Support tables with varying colspans

[jwage]

Is it possible to support tables with varying colspans like this?

+-------------------+---------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Doctrine          | PHP           | Database vendor                                                                               |
|                   |               +--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------+
|                   |               | Name                     | Version | Type                                                     |
+===================+===============+==========================+=========+==========================================================+
| **smallint**      | ``integer``   | **MySQL**                | *all*   | ``SMALLINT`` ``UNSIGNED`` [10]_ ``AUTO_INCREMENT`` [11]_ |
|                   |               +--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------+
|                   |               | **Drizzle**              | *all*   | ``INT`` ``UNSIGNED`` [10]_ ``AUTO_INCREMENT`` [11]_      |
|                   |               +--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------+
|                   |               | **PostgreSQL**           | *all*   | ``SMALLINT``                                             |
|                   |               +--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------+
|                   |               | **Oracle**               | *all*   | ``NUMBER(5)``                                            |
|                   |               +--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------+
|                   |               | **SQL Server**           | *all*   | ``SMALLINT`` ``IDENTITY`` [11]_                          |
|                   |               +--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------+
|                   |               | **SQL Anywhere**         | *all*   | ``UNSIGNED`` [10]_ ``SMALLINT`` ``IDENTITY`` [11]_       |
|                   |               +--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------+
|                   |               | **SQLite**               | *all*   | ``INTEGER`` [16]_                                        |
+-------------------+---------------+--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------+
| **integer**       | ``integer``   | **MySQL**                | *all*   | ``INT`` ``UNSIGNED`` [10]_ ``AUTO_INCREMENT`` [11]_      |
|                   |               +--------------------------+         |                                                          |
|                   |               | **Drizzle**              |         |                                                          |
|                   |               +--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------+
|                   |               | **PostgreSQL**           | *all*   | ``INT`` [12]_                                            |
|                   |               |                          |         +----------------------------------------------------------+
|                   |               |                          |         | ``SERIAL`` [11]_                                         |
|                   |               +--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------+
|                   |               | **Oracle**               | *all*   | ``NUMBER(10)``                                           |
|                   |               +--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------+
|                   |               | **SQL Server**           | *all*   | ``INT`` ``IDENTITY`` [11]_                               |
|                   |               +--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------+
|                   |               | **SQL Anywhere**         | *all*   | ``UNSIGNED`` [10]_ ``INT`` ``IDENTITY`` [11]_            |
|                   |               +--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------+
|                   |               | **SQLite**               | *all*   | ``INTEGER`` [16]_                                        |
+-------------------+---------------+--------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------+

We are migrating from Sphinx and this is something they seem to support.