Great Bridge ceases operations

Hello,

This is very unfortunate. I wish all of the Great Bridge employees the best.

Sincerely,

Joshua Drake
Command Prompt, Inc.

Author: <a href=http://stage.linuxports.com/projects/practicalpostgresql/book1.htm&gt;
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pgman@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian) wrote in message news:<200109061809.f86I9jH08772@candle.pha.pa.us>...

Tom, Jan, and I have enjoyed working for Great Bridge, and will continue
our involvement with PostgreSQL.

So what's going to happen to you guys then?

Chris

Tom, Jan, and I have enjoyed working for Great Bridge, and will continue
our involvement with PostgreSQL.

So what's going to happen to you guys then?

We will cease existing tomorrow at noon. :-)

Well, actually, we will stay with PostgreSQL and see what happens in the
future. We worked on PostgreSQL before Great Bridge, and we will work
after Great Bridge too.

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This is a very sad news. What can I say ?
Wish you all the best !
And also the best for PostgreSQL projects.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: "PostgreSQL-general" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 1:09 AM
Subject: [GENERAL] Great Bridge ceases operations

This kind of sad news is coming all too frequently
now.

I wish you all the best.

Andrew

--- Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:

Effective tomorrow, Great Bridge LLC will cease
operations. Full
information can be obtained from:

http://www.greatbridge.com/

Great Bridge .org, http://greatbridge.org/, will
remain in place until
projects are migrated to a new site.

Tom, Jan, and I have enjoyed working for Great
Bridge, and will continue
our involvement with PostgreSQL.

-- 
Bruce Momjian                        | 
http://candle.pha.pa.us
pgman@candle.pha.pa.us               |  (610)
853-3000
+  If your life is a hard drive,     |  830 Blythe
Avenue
+  Christ can be your backup.        |  Drexel
Hill, Pennsylvania 19026

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This seems like such a basic function that I'm sure I am missing something
fundamental. I have a table, say xref, whose columns are primary key values for
other tables. Some of theses keys may be NULL for a given row in xref. I want
to create a query that returns the corresponding entries in the other tables.

xref:
drug_id | function_id|syst_id |text_id
--------------------------
d0001 | 2 | 3 | 3423
d0001 | 5 | | 5678
d0056 | 3 | 5 |

system_id:
syst_id | syst_desc
--------------
3 | renal
4 | hepatic
5 | respiratory

clinical_text:
text_id| clinical_text
--------------
3423 | 'some medical mumbo jumbo'
5678 | 'more of the same'

I want the syst_desc and clinical_text (plus other similar data from tables not
shown) given a drug_id and function_id.

Any help?

Thanks a bunch,

Jeff Patterson
The Melanoma Patients' Information Page
http://www.mpip.org

On Friday 07 September 2001 08:57, you wrote:

This kind of sad news is coming all too frequently
now.

Yep. I really thought Great Bridge was one of the few Open Source companies
that would really thrive, at least once the economy picks up again. This was
a real shock.

Does that leave Red Hat the main (only?) commercial supporter of PostgreSQL?

Not that it really needs expensive support. I'm finding that it just works.
Maybe THAT was the problem... :-)

Best to all,
Micah

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Great Bridge .org, http://greatbridge.org/, will remain in place until
projects are migrated to a new site.

Are there any plans to migrate things like the information on their
benchmarks against other databases? Those are valuable pieces of
information in the broader PostgreSQL context and it would be a shame
to loose them.

Cheers,
Brook

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Micah Yoder wrote:

Hi Micah,

No, PostgreSQL Inc. based out of Ontario and Nova Scotia, Canada also
offer commercial support for Unix based platforms. Linux, FreeBSD and most
other, if not all, Unix varients are all supported.

On Friday 07 September 2001 08:57, you wrote:

This kind of sad news is coming all too frequently
now.

Yep. I really thought Great Bridge was one of the few Open Source companies
that would really thrive, at least once the economy picks up again. This was
a real shock.

Does that leave Red Hat the main (only?) commercial supporter of PostgreSQL?

Not that it really needs expensive support. I'm finding that it just works.
Maybe THAT was the problem... :-)

Best to all,
Micah

--
Like to travel? http://TravTalk.org
Micah Yoder Internet Development http://yoderdev.com

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Ummmm ... PostgreSQL, inc (http://www.pgsql.com) was around before GB, and
is still around now ...

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Micah Yoder wrote:

Does that leave Red Hat the main (only?) commercial supporter of PostgreSQL?

Heh,

Hardly, there is PGSQL, Inc. and Command Prompt, Inc. (my company). We
have been around for almost four years and have provided custom
development and support for PostgreSQL (starting with Postgres95)
since that time.

There are also several other companies listed on the .org site that
provide support.

You should check out our up-coming book, Practical PostgreSQL:

http://stage.linuxports.com/projects/postgres/book1.htm

J