e memory;
         otherwise, the standard C library <span class="bold"><strong>malloc</strong></span>(3) is used.  The caller is responsible
         for deallocating the memory.  To deallocate the memory, free the
         memory reference; references inside the returned memory need not be
         individually freed.
    </p>
      <p>
         In the presence of multiple threads or processes accessing an active
         sequence, the information returned by <code class="methodname">DbSequence::stat()</c