update query with join on two tables

Question

I have customer and address tables.

Query:

SELECT *
FROM addresses a,
     customers b
WHERE a.id = b.id

Answer 1

Officially, the SQL languages does not support a JOIN or FROM clause in an UPDATE statement unless it is in a subquery. Thus, the Hoyle ANSI approach would be something like

Update addresses
Set cid = (
            Select c.id
            From customers As c
            where c.id = a.id
            )
Where Exists    (
                Select 1
                From customers As C1
                Where C1.id = addresses.id
                )

However many DBMSs such Postgres support the use of a FROM clause in an UPDATE statement. In many cases, you are required to include the updating table and alias it in the FROM clause however I'm not sure about Postgres:

Update addresses
Set cid = c.id
From addresses As a
    Join customers As c
        On c.id = a.id