On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 4:14 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Really?  Is your next_contact field a date field and not a text field?
What order does it come out in?

(And I assume you saw David J's correction to the misinformation I offered.)

Cheers,
Ken


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