[postgis-users] Support for LINESTRING and CIRCULARSTRING in the same polygon.

[Sandro Santilli]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 08:48:41PM +0200, Mats Taraldsvik wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have to deal with Polygons which have curves as well as straight
> lines. How should I store them in postgis? (If I understand the
> documentation correctly, Polygon is for linestrings, CurvePolygon is
> for circularstrings, but none of them handles a mix of both..?)

You should be able to use compoundcurves (mix of circularstrings and
straight lines) in the definition of rings for CURVEPOLYGON type
starting with PostGIS 1.4.

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