Thanks for the warning.

I won't do it again, I promise ;)



On 02/28/2012 04:57 PM, Leoze Oze wrote:
Dear Denis,
you need to be strong to be partially agree with Paul Ramsey.  ;)

Regards.


On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Denis Rouzaud <denis.rouz...@gmail.com <mailto:denis.rouz...@gmail.com>> wrote:

    I partially agree.

    If you look in the doc
    http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-svn/ST_LineToCurve.html
    It is written that it should convert to circular strings or curved
    polygon.

    In case of circular strings, you need at least 3 (and not 4)
    points to determine the circle, as explained in Stephen's link
    http://paulbourke.net/geometry/circlefrom3/


    On 02/28/2012 04:32 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
    No. This is a misunderstanding of purposes.

    ST_LineToCurve is the inverse of ST_CurveToLine. CurveToLine takes in
    a circular object and linearizes it, turning curves into regular small
    sections of linear arcs to approximate the input shape.
    LineToCurve analyzes an input linestring, looking for the tell-tale
    regularity of linearized arcs and converts them back to real arcs. The
    process can only work with linestrings that have for or more vertices
    to analyze.

    What Denis is looking for is probably something more like
    http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/1291

    P.

    On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Sandro Santilli<s...@keybit.net>  
<mailto:s...@keybit.net>  wrote:
    On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 09:36:34AM +0100, Denis Rouzaud wrote:
    Hi,

    Can someone tells me why ST_LineToCurve needs at least a linestring
    of 4 points to be run?
    If I have three points, I should be able to create a circularstring, right?

    Here the error I have:
    SELECT ST_LineToCurve(ST_GeomFromText('LINESTRING(554803.177682475
    145390.853708235,554796.469135702 145401.404724093,554769.634948609
    145404.042478058)'));
    ERROR:  pta_desegmentize needs implementation for npoints<  4
    If I read the message correctly it answers exactly your questions.
    It "needs implementation". A patch is welcome.

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