[postgis-tickets] [PostGIS] #3112: Add a new function to determine if a geometry will be accepted by routines not handling curve geometries

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#3112: Add a new function to determine if a geometry will be accepted by routines
not handling curve geometries
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  Reporter:  aaime        |      Owner:  pramsey
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  low          |  Milestone:  PostGIS 2.2.0
 Component:  postgis      |    Version:  2.1.x
Resolution:               |   Keywords:
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Comment (by pramsey):

 The problem is not so much in categorizing whether a geometry has curves
 in them as in categorizing which functions do or do not handle curved
 geometries. It might be better just to do a run through the whole
 functional set and pushing all arc's through stroking so that we have no
 functions that do not "support" curved geometry. If that results in a
 little weirdness (the first stop in running simplify on an arced object
 would be adding a bunch of vertices to it) at least we'd have 100%
 functional coverage for those types.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/3112#comment:3>
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