diff --git a/foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/sequencing/UUIDSequence.java b/foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/sequencing/UUIDSequence.java
index afaf2538edd..e0ab0e83d45 100644
--- a/foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/sequencing/UUIDSequence.java
+++ b/foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/sequencing/UUIDSequence.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2011, 2022 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2011, 2022 Oracle, IBM and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
  * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 
 // Contributors:
 //     Oracle - initial API and implementation
+//     08/10/2022-4.0 Jody Grassel
+//        - ECL1535 : UUIDGenerator intermittently fails to initialize
 package org.eclipse.persistence.sequencing;
 
 import java.util.UUID;
@@ -31,6 +33,16 @@ public UUIDSequence(String name) {
         super(name);
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
+        if (obj instanceof UUIDSequence) {
+            UUIDSequence other = (UUIDSequence)obj;
+            return this.getName().equals(other.getName());
+        } else {
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+
     @Override
     public Object getGeneratedValue(Accessor accessor, AbstractSession writeSession, String seqName) {
         ValueReadQuery query = getDatasourcePlatform().getUUIDQuery();
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index fa77e7f1735..588a5ec66fa 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@
         <mysql.version>8.0.28</mysql.version>
         <mariadb.version>3.0.6</mariadb.version>
         <mssql.version>10.2.1.jre11</mssql.version>
-        <pgsql.version>42.4.0</pgsql.version>
+        <pgsql.version>42.4.1</pgsql.version>
         <!-- CQ #21139, 21140 -->
         <logback.version>1.3.0-alpha16</logback.version>
         <oracle.jdbc.version>21.6.0.0.1</oracle.jdbc.version>