MySQL: 多分组依据 Desc 顺序问题

MySQL: Multiple Group By With Desc Order Issue

我已经访问过 MySQL order by before group by 的 Single Group By,它工作正常。我对 2 组按列有疑问。

我下面 table 名为 "messages"。消息是用户帖子的评论

id | posts_id | from_user_id | to_user_id | message_description | created_at
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1      1           1              2             test1             2016-09-06 10:00:00
2      1           1              2             test2             2016-09-06 11:00:00
3      1           4              2             test3             2016-09-06 09:00:00
4      1           4              2             test4             2016-09-06 15:00:00
5      2           1              2             test1             2016-09-06 10:00:00
6      2           1              2             test2             2016-09-06 11:00:00
7      2           4              2             test3             2016-09-06 09:00:00
8      2           4              2             test4             2016-09-06 15:00:00

查询的结果输出应该是

id | posts_id | from_user_id | to_user_id | message_description | created_at
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2      1           1              2             test2             2016-09-06 11:00:00
4      1           4              2             test4             2016-09-06 15:00:00
6      2           1              2             test2             2016-09-06 11:00:00
8      2           4              2             test4             2016-09-06 15:00:00

我正在尝试检索 post 明智的和用户明智的他们的最新消息。

我在下面进行了尝试,但结果顺序不正确。

SELECT *
FROM messages
WHERE to_user_id = '2'
GROUP BY posts_id DESC,
         from_user_id
ORDER BY id DESC

此问题与 SO 上发布的其他数千个问题相同。如手册中所述,最佳解决方案是不相关的子查询,例如:

SELECT x.* 
  FROM my_table x 
  JOIN 
     ( SELECT MAX(id) id 
         FROM my_table 
        WHERE to_user_id = 2 -- OPTIONAL
        GROUP 
           BY from_user_id
     ) y 
    ON y.id = x.id;