Re: Subquery to select max(date) value - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Thu, 28 Mar 2019, Ken Tanzer wrote:

> You need the ORDER BY in the outer join.

Ken,

I thought so. But, ...

> (And I don't think the one inside the lateral join is doing you any good).
> Try:
> ...
>              a.next_contact is not null
>             limit 1) sq
>            order by sq.next_contact DESC;

This re-orders the returned set, but still not in chronological order.

Thanks,

Rich