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If you'd like to calculate the difference between the timestamps in seconds, multiply the decimal difference in days by the number of seconds in a day, which equals 24 * 60 * 60 = 86400 , or the product of the number of hours in a day, the number of minutes in an hour, and the number of seconds in a minute.
To calculate the difference between the timestamps in MySQL, use the TIMESTAMPDIFF(unit, start, end) function. The unit argument can be MICROSECOND , SECOND , MINUTE , HOUR , DAY , WEEK , MONTH , QUARTER , or YEAR .
In PostgreSQL, if you subtract one datetime value (TIMESTAMP, DATE or TIME data type) from another, you will get an INTERVAL value in the form ”ddd days hh:mi:ss”. So you can use DATE_PART function to extact the number of days, but it returns the number of full days between the dates.
The result of subtracting one timestamp (TS2) from another (TS1) is a timestamp duration that specifies the number of years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds, and fractions of a second between the two timestamps. then %SECOND(RESULT) = %SECOND(TS1) - %SECOND(TS2).
Try:
SELECT EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM (timestamp_B - timestamp_A))
FROM TableA
Details here: EXTRACT.
select age(timestamp_A, timestamp_B)
Answering to Igor's comment:
select age('2013-02-28 11:01:28'::timestamp, '2011-12-31 11:00'::timestamp);
age
-------------------------------
1 year 1 mon 28 days 00:01:28
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