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Add "latestIndexed" defaultBlock param value#7528

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Add "latestIndexed" defaultBlock param value#7528
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Goal: allow a block to be ignored for purposes of RPC, until all ancillary internal data structures for that block that power other RPC methods have been built (and become available to an external rpcdaemon).

Changes:

  • Add defaultBlock param-value latestIndexed, to refer to the lowest block-height that has passed all stages
  • For chains not driven by CL fork-choice, for which latest currently means latestExecuted, change latest to mean latestIndexed instead.

Making latest mean latestIndexed provides safety by default, and matches geth semantics.

People who want to trade safety for efficiency, to see partially-processed blocks during first sync after restart, can make this desire explicit by passing latestExecuted rather than latest.

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matches geth semantics - what does it mean? I don't see this parameter in geth source code

FYI: some related PR #7532

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matches geth semantics - what does it mean? I don't see this parameter in geth source code

Geth's RPC code inherently can't see a block until that block goes through all stages of processing (since in geth, RPC can only get a handle on blocks through the chain head, and that's the last thing to be advanced during block insert.) eth_blockNumber("latest") in geth has the semantics of returning a reference to the highest known "finished" block.

This PR would make Erigon's eth_blockNumber("latest") do the same thing that Geth's eth_blockNumber("latest") does: avoid revealing unfinished blocks.

This PR also introduces an explicit name for this semantics, latestIndexed, to distinguish it from the current semantics, which is also known as latestExecuted. Client software that wants to get a specific semantics, but not fall back to some other semantics if it isn't, can do so by using the explicit name. (I presume that this explicit-ness is the reason that latestExecuted was added, despite latest also being aliased to latestExecuted.)

Changing the meaning of latest is the reason I did the PR. Adding another explicit name isn't so important. (But I'm not sure why you wouldn't add it. Adding values to an enum never breaks API compatibility; existing clients just won't know about those options, and so won't use them.)

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This PR is stale because it has been open for 40 days with no activity.

@github-actions github-actions Bot added the Stale label Aug 25, 2023
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Hello, We encountered a similar problem and ended up seeing an inconsistent state in the logs. Is there a reason this PR is stale?

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@gdevanla what is your version?

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@AskAlexSharov We are on erigon version 2.42.0-stable-beb97784

@tsutsu tsutsu force-pushed the feature-latest-indexed branch from 599e340 to 8f25bbf Compare March 25, 2024 06:29
@yperbasis yperbasis changed the base branch from release/2.60 to main May 1, 2024 07:10
AskAlexSharov and others added 9 commits May 1, 2024 16:27
Fix a timing hole where torrents that get created before webseeds have
been downloaded don't get webseeds set.
…ontech#10158)

Cherry-pick PR erigontech#10119 into the release

Co-authored-by: Marcello Ardizzone <marcelloardizzone@hotmail.it>
…erigontech#10166)

Fixes
erigontech#10157 (comment)

Problem was:
```
grep -r -l --exclude-dir=erigon-lib "^// Code generated by MockGen. DO NOT EDIT.$" . | xargs rm -r
```

was deleting the `mockgen` binary after it was built 🙃
…ch#10164)

fixes a 2nd regression introduced by -
erigontech#7593

- it generates duplicate struct types in the same package (check
screenshot below)
- also found a better way to fix the first regression with unused
imports (improvement over
erigontech#10091)

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Cherry pick PR erigontech#10155 into the release

Co-authored-by: Dmytro <vovk.dimon@gmail.com>
…nt/GetHeader (erigontech#9786) (erigontech#9894)

* improved logging
* check ctx in ServeHTTP: The context might be cancelled if the client's
connection was closed while waiting for ServeHTTP.
* If execution API returns ExecutionStatus_Busy, limit retry attempts to
10 seconds. This timeout must be lower than a typical client timeout (30
sec), in order to give the client feedback about the server status.
* If execution API returns ExecutionStatus_Busy, increase retry delay
from 10 ms to 100 ms to avoid stalling ourselves with multiple busy
loops. IMO this delay should be higher (e.g. 1 sec). Ideally we
shouldn't do polling at all, but doing a blocking ctx call requires
rearchitecting the ExecutionStatus_Busy logic.

see erigontech#9786
Cherry pick PR erigontech#10187 into the release

Co-authored-by: Giulio rebuffo <giulio.rebuffo@gmail.com>
yperbasis and others added 25 commits May 31, 2024 13:44
Cherry pick PR erigontech#10546 into the release branch

Co-authored-by: Giulio rebuffo <giulio.rebuffo@gmail.com>
…racters (erigontech#10578)

Cherry pick PR erigontech#10512 into the release branch

Co-authored-by: Giulio rebuffo <giulio.rebuffo@gmail.com>
…rigontech#10580)

Cherry pick PR erigontech#10576 into the release branch

Co-authored-by: Giulio rebuffo <giulio.rebuffo@gmail.com>
Problem: `+1` was added to maxBlockNum instead of minBlockNum
for: erigontech#10554
This is a fix for: 

erigontech#10192

This fixes is a deadlock in v4_udp.go where 
* Thread A waits on mutex.Lock() in resetTimeout() called after reading
listUpdate channel.
* Thread B waits on listUpdate <- plist.PushBack(p) called after locking
mutex.Lock()
  
This fix decouples the list operations which need locking from the
channel operations which don't by storing the changes in local
variables. These updates are used for resetting a timeout - which is not
order dependent.
…ion workflows (erigontech#10778)

This PR backports improvements that we added to the E3 tests: recording
runner name and db version used for testing on MongoDB database.
Merged all the work done from main branch to keep diagnostics up to
date.
Cherry pick PR erigontech#10093 into the release branch

Co-authored-by: Minhyuk Kim <kimminhyuk1004@gmail.com>
Cherry pick PR erigontech#10825 into the release branch

Co-authored-by: Minhyuk Kim <kimminhyuk1004@gmail.com>
@tsutsu tsutsu force-pushed the feature-latest-indexed branch from 8f25bbf to df6e627 Compare June 27, 2024 22:19
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Closing since it's very old

@yperbasis yperbasis closed this Sep 23, 2025
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