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.
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