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Keep track of first available block (excluding genesis) #1936

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rphmeier opened this issue Aug 16, 2016 · 0 comments
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Keep track of first available block (excluding genesis) #1936

rphmeier opened this issue Aug 16, 2016 · 0 comments
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F8-enhancement 🎊 An additional feature request. P5-sometimesoon 🌲 Issue is worth doing soon. Q2-easy 💃 Can be fixed by copy and pasting from StackOverflow.

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Now that snapshotting is live, it's no longer safe to assume that the entire chain is stored.
Also useful for block pruning, light client providers.

No migration necessary; just binary search for the first non-available block if the "first" key isn't found.
@rphmeier rphmeier added F8-enhancement 🎊 An additional feature request. P5-sometimesoon 🌲 Issue is worth doing soon. Q2-easy 💃 Can be fixed by copy and pasting from StackOverflow. labels Aug 16, 2016
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