[Qgis-developer] QGIS 2.18.4, splitting a curve results in line geometries

[Nyall Dawson]

On 4 March 2017 at 02:22, Eric Goddard <egoddard1010 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have some MultiCurve geometries in PostGIS. When I split a curve in
> QGIS, both of the new geometries are converted to linestrings. I
> couldn't find anything from googling, so I'm not sure if this is a
> known issue.

The splitting algorithm currently uses the GEOS library, which has no
support for curved geometries.

It's not so much a known issue as a missing feature. Possibly with
increased availability and demand for curved geometry types someone
may step and sponsor a solution to this.

Nyall