Texture distortion on squashed curves

I'm making a fence or railing around the roof of an oddly shaped building. There are curved parts that are half cylinders hollowed and squished so they are not half circles if seen from the top, but half ovals.

In trying to texture these there are two options, default and planar, which tranlates to noticeably distorted and extremely distorted. This is especially true near the edges where the texture is squashed more than in the center which is also where the curved part meets a straight part of the fence. It is more noticeable with the regular straight lines of an alpha wrought iron fence texture.

I have tried this with stretch texture on and off before deforming the half cylinder and also tried it deforming the cylinder first and then applying the texture. It doesn't seem to make a difference.

Am I going to need to rethink the entire structure to use non-deformed half cylinders if I want a fence conforming to its shape? The limitations of this medium are heartbreaking.

Here's a link with pictures of what I'm trying to do. Sorry, they came a bit large.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/beethovenfan/SL_Temporary/index.html

Thanks.

Im not at home to test this, Im also not a master builder...so I might be wrong....
have you tried cutting the squished oval and take the cut back until the texture doesnt curve and then stretch the straight prim until it meets....from the pictures it looks only a very thin part of the texture is closing up round the curve. Failing that you could bodge and put a squixhed oval column at the join to cover.
Dont shout at me if it doesnt work tho

I see what you mean. That just might work. The texture is squished on both sides, but it's most noticeable where the seam is.

Also if I line up the post to overlap the seam, that might help. I have not yet tried aligning the textures. I couldn't get past their being scrunched on the ends.

Thanks.