correlated multi-set update?

Hello,

My company recently deployed Pg 7.4.1. on Solaris for an experimental
project and is using the experience to evaluate its viability for
migration from Oracle 7.0.

While I like a lot of the features of Pg, one thing I noticed that
"seems" to be missing is the ability to set multiple fields in an update
using a correlated subquery.

For example, I have a statement that copies fields from a template (bar)
into another table (foo) based on a list of keys in a third table (keylist):

UPDATE foo f
SET (f1, f2, f3, f4, f5) = (
SELECT f1, f2, f3, f4, f5
FROM bar b
WHERE f.fk = b.pk
)
WHERE f.pk IN (
SELECT l.pk
FROM keylist l
);

In Oracle this works wonders, but it seems to fail under Pg because Pg
wants single field updates and does not allow subqueries.

Next I tried:

UPDATE foo f
SET f1 = (
SELECT f1
FROM bar b
WHERE f.fk = b.pk
),
f2 = (
SELECT f2
FROM bar b
WHERE f.fk = b.pk
),
f3 = (
SELECT f3
FROM bar b
WHERE f.fk = b.pk
),
f4 = (
SELECT f4
FROM bar b
WHERE f.fk = b.pk
),
f5 = (
SELECT f5
FROM bar b
WHERE f.fk = b.pk
)
WHERE f.pk IN (
SELECT l.pk
FROM keylist l
);

That seemed to get closer, but still barfed (apparently) because of a
lack of table aliasing and correlated subqueries. This makes the
process become an iterative one.

Am I missing something here?

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
Marty