Mysql SELECT inside UPDATE

Question

UPDATE forms SET

pos = (SELECT MIN(pos)-1 FROM forms)

WHERE id=$id

This doesn\'t work, error message:

**You can\'t specify target         


        

Answer 1

I think that you can not use a subquery inside an update statement, but any way there are workarounds for it ...

Here is a Quotation from the following site:

"dev.mysql.com"

“Currently, you cannot delete from a table and select from the same table in a sub-query ”