Efficient latest record query with Postgresql

Question

I need to do a big query, but I only want the latest records.

For a single entry I would probably do something like

SELECT * FROM table WHERE id = ?          


        

Answer 1

what do you think about this?

select * from (
   SELECT a.*, row_number() over (partition by a.id order by date desc) r 
   FROM table a where ID IN $LIST 
)
WHERE r=1

i used it a lot on the past