Check the formatting functions documentation:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/functions-formatting.html
# select to_char( now() - '2015-06-27 14:33:24'
, 'Y"years" MM"months" DD"days" HH:MI:SS"."MS' );
to_char
-------------------------------------
0years 00months 01days 06:24:59.381
(1 row)
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com>
wrote:
> On 06/25/2015 08:23 PM, litu16 wrote:
>
>> Hi Adrian,
>>
>> but I would like to get the time diff in this format
>>
>> 0years 0months 0days 00:00:00.000
>>
>> not only hours, minutes, seconds.
>>
>> is this possible???
>>
>
> Well age:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/interactive/functions-datetime.html
>
> does that sort of:
>
> production=# SELECT age(timestamp '2015-06-26 09:15:15', timestamp
> '2015-06-26 02:16:00');
> age
> ----------
> 06:59:15
> (1 row)
>
> production=# SELECT age(timestamp '2015-06-26 09:15:15', timestamp
> '2015-06-20 02:16:00');
> age
> -----------------
> 6 days 06:59:15
> (1 row)
>
> production=# SELECT age(timestamp '2015-06-26 09:15:15', timestamp
> '2014-06-20 02:16:00');
> age
> ------------------------
> 1 year 6 days 06:59:15
> (1 row)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>> Thanks Advanced.
>>
>>
>>
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