Transaction Receipts null returned

[lukerQuant]

System information

Geth version: 1.10.1
OS & Version: OSX
Commit hash : release

Attempted with light node and full node fast sync

Expected behaviour

Can get recent and historical transaction receipts

Actual behaviour

We only get recent transaction receipts. E.g. transaction receipt searches for transactions occurring a couple of years ago return null.

I would at expect transaction receipts to be returned via at least full node fast sync as they "downloads all blocks (including headers, transactions and receipts)" (https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/nodes-and-clients/) . If this is not the intended behaviour of certain nodes then the documentation of https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/nodes-and-clients/ should be updated.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

Query for an transactionReceipt of an old transaction on a light or full node (fast synced)

[MariusVanDerWijden]

Hmm the receipts should be written during fast sync. It might be that due to transaction unindexing the old receipts are not available anymore. You can disable transaction unindexing with --txlookuplimit=0 as discussed here: https://blog.ethereum.org/2021/03/03/geth-v1-10-0/

[lukerQuant]

Many thanks for the information. We missed that geth upgrade detail. We will clarify it but I will assume that is the problem for now. So I will close this.