Select from same table as an Insert or Update

Question

Clearly the following is incorrect.

INSERT INTO `aTable` (`A`,`B`) VALUES((SELECT MAX(`A`) FROM `aTable`)*2),\'name\');

I get the value:

Answer 1

I take it that INSERT ... SELECT isn't working? I see this in the documentation for it:

The target table of the INSERT statement may appear in the FROM clause of the SELECT part of the query. (This was not possible in some older versions of MySQL.) In this case, MySQL creates a temporary table to hold the rows from the SELECT and then inserts those rows into the target table.

Out of curiosity, which version of MySQL are you using?