Question

I have a table in PostgreSQL 8.3 with 2 timestamp columns. I would like to get the difference between these timestamps in seconds. Could you please help me how to get this done?

TableA
(
  timestamp_A timestamp,
  timestamp_B timestamp
)

I need to get something like (timestamo_B - timestamp_A) in seconds (not just the difference between seconds, it should include hours, minutes etc).

Answer 1

Try: 

SELECT EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM (timestamp_B - timestamp_A))
FROM TableA

Details here: EXTRACT.