Using the IN predicate in an UPDATE...

Herouth,

This query takes 20 years (poetic licence invoked ;-).
Do you have a smarter way to accomplish this end:

UPDATE table1 SET id = 2
WHERE rec_num IN
 ( SELECT rec_num
   FROM table1
   WHERE id = 1
  );

This is an attempt to cleanup some user error...I have an old
foxpro db that uses a char str as an index and this index has no
check constraints (like, making the index unique...ouch.)
The new pg db is performing nicely, now that it's live...and
housing 12 years worth of data.  But I am saddled with quite a bit
of housekeeping - correcting anomalies that were part and parcel
of the original (foxpro) design.  Or absence thereof.

Thanks much!
Tom

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