This is part of the "UTXO Set Statistics" project in Core, which aims
to make things like "checking coin supply" faster. This stuff, and
related things in coinstats.cpp, have always been broken for Elements
in the sense that we consider only explicit outputs and we ignore
assets (so everything just gets added together to get a meaningless
total). It probably wouldn't be too hard to restrict this to only
consider policyAsset, but it's out of scope for a rebase IMO.
Also, I think this situation is fine .. I don't understand the motivation
for this or why Core is merging this when they refuse to merge an address
index .. but I guess we'll see if there are users who care about this data
and who care about it being meaningful on Elements.
Also, apologies for the big diff -- there were some mechanical changes
to deal with CT amounts, but most of the changes related to the difference
in how fees are accounted for. While I'm not thrilled with this PR, its
functional test is really good! So I think what I eventually came up with
is internally consistent.
What an awful PR. This introduces Python-like runtime failures into the
RPC interface in case there are type mismatches between the documentation
and every possible return value from every RPC call. I fixed all the errors
that are triggered by the existing tests but there will be a long tail of
errors to come, I'm sure.
Made some edits to rpc/client.cpp on the advice of test/functional/rpc_help.py
to make the "RPC conversion tables" consistent, but I have no idea what these
tables are or what they're for. I assume, given that nobody has noticed these
inconsistencies ever, that they're fine.
5f96d7d22d rpc: gettxoutsetinfo rejects hash_serialized_2 for specific height (Fabian Jahr)
23fe50436b test: Add test for coinstatsindex behavior in reorgs (Fabian Jahr)
90c966b0f3 rpc: Allow gettxoutsetinfo and getblockstats for stale blocks (Fabian Jahr)
b9362392ae index, rpc: Add use_index option for gettxoutsetinfo (Fabian Jahr)
bb7788b121 test: Test coinstatsindex robustness across restarts (Fabian Jahr)
e0938c2909 test: Add tests for block_info in gettxoutsetinfo (Fabian Jahr)
2501576ecc rpc, index: Add verbose amounts tracking to Coinstats index (Fabian Jahr)
655d929836 test: add coinstatsindex getindexinfo coverage, improve current tests (Jon Atack)
ca01bb8d68 rpc: Add Coinstats index to getindexinfo (Fabian Jahr)
57a026c30f test: Add unit test for Coinstats index (Fabian Jahr)
6a4c0c09ab test: Add functional test for Coinstats index (Fabian Jahr)
3f166ecc12 rpc: gettxoutsetinfo can be requested for specific blockheights (Fabian Jahr)
3c914d58ff index: Coinstats index can be activated with command line flag (Fabian Jahr)
dd58a4de21 index: Add Coinstats index (Fabian Jahr)
a8a46c4b3c refactor: Simplify ApplyStats and ApplyHash (Fabian Jahr)
9c8a265fd2 refactor: Pass hash_type to CoinsStats in stats object (Fabian Jahr)
2e2648a902 crypto: Make MuHash Remove method efficient (Fabian Jahr)
Pull request description:
This is part of the coinstats index project tracked in #18000
While the review of the new UTXO set hash algorithm (MuHash) takes longer recently #19328 was merged which added the possibility to run `gettxoutsetinfo` with a specific hash type. As the first type it added `hash_type=none` which skips the hashing of the UTXO set altogether. This alone did not make `gettxoutsetinfo` much faster but it allows the use of an index for the remaining coin statistics even before a new hashing algorithm has been added. Credit to Sjors for the idea to take this intermediate step.
Features summary:
- Users can start their node with the option `-coinstatsindex` which syncs the index in the background
- After the index is synced the user can use `gettxoutsetinfo` with `hash_type=none` or `hash_type=muhash` and will get the response instantly out of the index
- The user can specify a height or block hash when calling `gettxoutsetinfo` to see coin statistics at a specific block height
ACKs for top commit:
Sjors:
re-tACK 5f96d7d22d
jonatack:
Code review re-ACK 5f96d7d22d per `git range-diff 13d27b4 07201d3 5f96d7d`
promag:
Tested ACK 5f96d7d22d. Light code review ACK 5f96d7d22d.
Tree-SHA512: cbca78bee8e9605c19da4fbcd184625fb280200718396c694a56c7daab6f44ad23ca9fb5456d09f245d8b8d9659fdc2b3f3ce5e953c1c6cf4003dbc74c0463c2
Add simple interfaces::Echo IPC interface with one method that just takes and
returns a string, to test multiprocess framework and provide an example of how
it can be used to spawn and call between processes.
This commit addresses #20809.
We add an additional 'error' property in the result of 'validateaddress' in case the address is not valid that gives a short description of why the address in invalid. We also change the error message returned by 'getaddressinfo' in case the address is invalid.
FIXME: we disable standardness checks for the non-PAK node in the PAK tests.
This is because of a bug in Elements which causes non-PAK nodes to reject
pegouts for standardness reasons. Need to fix it after the rebase.
