From: teknokrat <teknokrat@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: how do i get differences between rows
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:23:35 +0000
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Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:21:35 +0000,
>   teknokrat <teknokrat@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>I am after an sql query that can give the differnces between consecutive
>>timestamp values in the resultset.
>>anyone know how to do this?
> 
> 
> I think you can do something like the following (untested) on most systems.
> select a.stamp - (select max(stamp) from tablename
>   where tablename.stamp < a.stamp) from tablename;
> 
> For postgres this (also untested) might be faster if there is an index
> on stamp.
> select a.stamp - (select stamp from tablename where tablename.stamp < a.stamp
>   order by stamp desc limit 1) from tablename;
> 
> The above relies on timestamps being unique. The difference for the smallest
> timestamp will be null.
> 
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this may give me difference between current row and oldest row but what 
I want is row(i).timestamp - row(i-1).timestamp. Also I would like to do 
it for timestamp values whose hours are within normal working hours i.e 9-5.