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How to create a new column to store the length of a linestring in postgis?

I am working with pgRouting, following this nice guide:A Beginner’s Guide to pgRouting I am now in this step:Calculating shortest routes, with these codes below SELECT * FROM shortest_path(' SELECT ...
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How to Calculate length of polyline geometry for several tables in PostGIS?

PostGIS database contains several geometry (polyline) tables (with names "D1_r", "D2_r", "D3_r"). I calculate length for one "postgis layer" use request: SELECT ...
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How to measure length of line accurately?

In postgis 1.5 for the below given query the answer is 1540651.62674101 meters , SELECT ST_Length(ST_GeomFromText('LINESTRING(77.83042478941326 9.98463896136159,78.03469506809812 23.90398909552571 ...