On Monday November 1 2004 11:38, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 12:05:18PM -0600, Ed L. wrote:
> > > It could impose a pretty severe memory footprint with a lot of
> > > sequences, though.
> >
> > By my rough guess, it will take around 128 bytes to store all data for
> > a sequence along with a few data structure pointers.
>
> Well, if you can do it in 128 bytes, that's a different story.  How
> do you calculate that, though?  I'd be interested to know.

I just looked at the columns of a sequence relation, figured 8 bytes for 
each of the 5 bigints (40 bytes), 64 bytes for the name, 2 bytes for the 
booleans, for ~106 bytes + pointers.  Probably not exact, but close.

Ed