[postgresql] Find difference between timestamps in seconds in PostgreSQL

I have a table in PostgreSQL 8.3 with 2 timestamp columns. I would like to get the difference between these timestamps in seconds. Could you please help me how to get this done?

TableA
(
  timestamp_A timestamp,
  timestamp_B timestamp
)

I need to get something like (timestamo_B - timestamp_A) in seconds (not just the difference between seconds, it should include hours, minutes etc).

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

SELECT (cast(timestamp_1 as bigint) - cast(timestamp_2 as bigint)) FROM table;

In case if someone is having an issue using extract.