How to update a table using a select group by in a second one and itself as the data source in MySQL

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Published on 2010-05-04T13:40:40Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 14:08 UTC
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I can do this:

SELECT t2.value + sum(t3.value)
FROM tableA t2, tableB t3
WHERE t2.somekey = t3.somekey
GROUP BY t3.somekey

But how to do this?

 UPDATE tableA t1
    SET speed = (
        SELECT t2.value + sum(t3.value)
        FROM tableA t2, tableB t3
        WHERE t2.somekey = t3.somekey
        AND t1.somekey = t3.somekey
        GROUP BY t3.somekey
   )
;

MySQL says it's illegal since you can't specify target table t1 for update in FROM clause.

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