This implements a backing store for chain history based on era1 files.
The new store is integrated with the freezer. Queries for blocks and receipts
below the current freezer tail are handled by the era store.
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Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>
Co-authored-by: lightclient <lightclient@protonmail.com>
This PR implements eth/69. This protocol version drops the bloom filter
from receipts messages, reducing the amount of data needed for a sync
by ~530GB (2.3B txs * 256 byte) uncompressed. Compressed this will
be reduced to ~100GB
The new version also changes the Status message and introduces the
BlockRangeUpdate message to relay information about the available history
range.
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Fixes https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/31732.
This logic was removed in the recent refactoring in the txindexer to
handle history cutoff (#31393). It was first introduced in this PR:
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/28908.
I have tested it and it works as an alternative to #31745.
This PR packs 3 changes to the flow of fetching txs from the API:
- It caches the indexer tail after each run is over to avoid hitting the
db all the time as was done originally in #28908.
- Changes `backend.GetTransaction`. It doesn't return an error anymore
when tx indexer is in progress. It shifts the responsibility to the
caller to check the progress. The reason is that in most cases we anyway
check the txpool for the tx. If it was indeed a pending tx we can avoid
the indexer progress check.
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In #31384 we unindex TXes prior to the merge block. However when the
node starts up it will try to re-index those back if the config is to index the
whole chain. This change makes the indexer aware of the history cutoff block,
avoiding reindexing in that segment.
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Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>
The total difficulty is the sum of all block difficulties from genesis
to a certain block. This value was used in PoW for deciding which chain
is heavier, and thus which chain to select. Since PoS has a different
fork selection algorithm, all blocks since the merge have a difficulty
of 0, and all total difficulties are the same for the past 2 years.
Whilst the TDs are mostly useless nowadays, there was never really a
reason to mess around removing them since they are so tiny. This
reasoning changes when we go down the path of pruned chain history. In
order to reconstruct any TD, we **must** retrieve all the headers from
chain head to genesis and then iterate all the difficulties to compute
the TD.
In a world where we completely prune past chain segments (bodies,
receipts, headers), it is not possible to reconstruct the TD at all. In
a world where we still keep chain headers and prune only the rest,
reconstructing it possible as long as we process (or download) the chain
forward from genesis, but trying to snap sync the head first and
backfill later hits the same issue, the TD becomes impossible to
calculate until genesis is backfilled.
All in all, the TD is a messy out-of-state, out-of-consensus computed
field that is overall useless nowadays, but code relying on it forces
the client into certain modes of operation and prevents other modes or
other optimizations. This PR completely nukes out the TD from the node.
It doesn't compute it, it doesn't operate on it, it's as if it didn't
even exist.
Caveats:
- Whenever we have APIs that return TD (devp2p handshake, tracer, etc.)
we return a TD of 0.
- For era files, we recompute the TD during export time (fairly quick)
to retain the format content.
- It is not possible to "verify" the merge point (i.e. with TD gone, TTD
is useless). Since we're not verifying PoW any more, just blindly trust
it, not verifying but blindly trusting the many year old merge point
seems just the same trust model.
- Our tests still need to be able to generate pre and post merge blocks,
so they need a new way to split the merge without TTD. The PR introduces
a settable ttdBlock field on the consensus object which is used by tests
as the block where originally the TTD happened. This is not needed for
live nodes, we never want to generate old blocks.
- One merge transition consensus test was disabled. With a
non-operational TD, testing how the client reacts to TTD is useless, it
cannot react.
Questions:
- Should we also drop total terminal difficulty from the genesis json?
It's a number we cannot react on any more, so maybe it would be cleaner
to get rid of even more concepts.
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