In the same spirit as the FreeBSD-native UUID generator that was discussed here a couple months ago, I was able to link Postgres 8.4 against the UUID generator embedded in the Linux ext2fs toolchain. My code is posted at
http://www.lmert.com/download/pguuid-for-8.4.tar.gz Unlike on FreeBSD, there isn't a link-conflict issue that requires this; it's just Another Way To Do It. -- David Lee Lambert ... Software Developer, member IEEE, ACM Cell phone: +1 586-873-8813 GPG key at http://www.lmert.com/keyring.txt IM: davidleelambert (Yahoo!) or lambe...@cse.msu.edu (MSN) -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers