Sorry, you are right. I was reading the 9.1.9 manual, so I expected a call to org-table-align
would collapse the columns accordingly to their width tokens

Thanks
Joao Cortes

From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Sent: 18 February 2019 16:05
To: Joao Cortes
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug: constant width columns [9.2.1 (release_9.2.1-246-ga7cf12 )]
 
Hello,

Joao Cortes <joaooneillcortes@outlook.pt> writes:

> It seems imposing a constant width to a column no longer works,
>
> | 1      |
> |--------|
> | <3>    |
> | 123456 |
> |--------|

FWIW, I cannot reproduce anything wrong with that table.

Regards,

--
Nicolas Goaziou