[postgis-devel] please review my assumption about segmentize and bbox

[Sandro Santilli]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 09:25:58AM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:

> What about curved geometries? like arc segments. Is the BBOX defined based
> on the true arc BBOX or the segmentized arc BBOX, if the later then changing
> the segmentation of an arc could in theory change hte BBOX.

Yep, this is similar to the point raised by Darafei (geography).
To be honest I don't know how BBOX is computed for curves though.

Once again though, topology does not support curves (nor geographies).

--strk;