You can’t specify target table ‘XXX’ for update in FROM clause – MySQL

If you try to run this query below in MySQL

UPDATE XXX
SET count = count + 5000 
WHERE id IN ( SELECT id FROM XXX WHERE id > 2 )  ; 

You will get this error message:
“You can’t specify target table ‘XXX’ for update in FROM clause – MySQL …”

MySQL does have an unorthodox way to handle this type of request:

UPDATE XXX
SET count = count +  5000
WHERE id  IN 
(
	SELECT id FROM 
	(
	SELECT id FROM XXX ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 20 
	) 
	AS Temp_Tbl
)