Re: is in postgres solution

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 11:43 +0300, Margus Roo wrote:
> Hello.
> I have 2 variables type timestamp. Example date1 = 2005-01-01 23:00 and
> date2 = 2005-05-04 12:00. I want get something like age(date2,date1) but
> ouput format must by hours::minutes.

get the difference in minutes with:
  extract('epoch' from date2-date1) / 60
and do the formatting with / and %

or

select extract('epoch' from date2-date1)/3600
       || '::'
       || extract('minutes' from date2-date1);

gnari