Get the difference between two timestamp cells but in a special format in PostgreSQL

From: litu16 <litumelendez(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Get the difference between two timestamp cells but in a special format in PostgreSQL
Date: 2015-06-25 04:11:24
Message-ID: 1435205484275-5855074.post@n5.nabble.com
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This is my table...

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I would like to get the time difference between 'time_type = Lap' AND
'time_type = Start' in order to fill 'time_elapse'. Im almost sure that this
code works...

* CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION timediff()
RETURNS trigger AS
$BODY$
DECLARE
t_ix real;

BEGIN
IF NEW.time_type = 'Lap' THEN
SELECT t.time FROM table_ebscb_spa_log04 t WHERE t.fn_name =
NEW.fn_name AND t.time_type = 'Start' ORDER BY t.stmtserial DESC LIMIT 1
INTO t_ix;
IF NOT FOUND THEN
RAISE EXCEPTION USING MESSAGE = 'There is not any previous
row...';
ELSE
NEW.time_elapse := t_ix - NEW.time;
END IF;
END IF;
return NEW;
END
$BODY$
LANGUAGE plpgsql VOLATILE*

But I don't know how to get the time difference between the two timestamps
cells in a special format: (years/months/days
hours:minutes:seconds:miliseconds) like this...

* 0y/0m/0d 00:00:01.001*

Is this possible??
Thanks Advanced.

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