id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc 97 Rename LWCURVE to LWCIRCSTRING mcayland mcayland " See explanation here: [http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-devel/2008-December/004421.html http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-devel/2008-December/004421.html] The confusion stems from the fact that internally what we call a curve is actually a circularstring; hence when reading code it gets very confusing since in the SQL-MM spec, a curve is an abstract supertype and not a real type. " task closed medium PostGIS 1.4.0 postgis 1.4 fixed