Limits of gnucash

[Buddha Buck]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 8:07 AM David T. via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> I replied to this earlier, but since you have sent it again (or perhaps it
> just appeared in my inbox again?), I will wonder at what precisely you mean
> by “hit the 16 bit limit”? It sounds as if your old accounting program used
> a sequential 16-bit number for its ID, limiting the effective number of
> entries to 64K. Is that right?
>
> If so, then you can rest easy with GnuCash; it uses guid’s for IDs; there
> is effectively no upper limit on these IDs. And, as you have heard,
> numerous users have files that are rather substantial in size (although not
> necessarily the 150K transactions you specified).
>

So you are saying that instead of a 16-bit limit, there's a 125-bit limit?
I'll have to worry about things when I have about 4 duodecillion entries?
That's not acceptable! :-)

150K transactions would be over twice a 16-bit limit, BTW.