## Proposed Changes
In an attempt to fix OOM issues and database consistency issues observed by some users after the introduction of compaction in v0.3.4, this PR makes the following changes:
* Run compaction less often: roughly every 1024 epochs, including after long periods of non-finality. I think the division check proposed by Paul is pretty solid, and ensures we don't miss any events where we should be compacting. LevelDB lacks an easy way to check the size of the DB, which would be another good trigger.
* Make it possible to disable the compaction on finalization using `--auto-compact-db=false`
* Make it possible to trigger a manual, single-threaded foreground compaction on start-up using `--compact-db`
* Downgrade the pruning log to `DEBUG`, as it's particularly noisy during sync
I would like to ship these changes to affected users ASAP, and will document them further in the Advanced Database section of the book if they prove effective.
## Issue Addressed
Closes#673
## Proposed Changes
Store a schema version in the database so that future releases can check they're running against a compatible database version. This would also enable automatic migration on breaking database changes, but that's left as future work.
The database config is also stored in the database so that the `slots_per_restore_point` value can be checked for consistency, which closes#673
* Add LRU caches to store
* Improvements to LRU caches
* Take state by value in `Store::put_state`
* Store blocks by value, configurable cache sizes
* Use a StateBatch to efficiently store skip states
* Fix store tests
* Add CloneConfig test, remove unused metrics
* Use Mutexes instead of RwLocks for LRU caches
This should reduce disk usage by 32x while keeping historical state queries to
less than 10s. If historical states are required quickly, the minimum SPRP of 32
can be set on the CLI.
* Draft of checkpoint freezer DB
* Fix bugs
* Adjust root iterators for checkpoint database
* Fix freezer state lookups with no slot hint
* Fix split comment
* Use "restore point" to refer to frozen states
* Resolve some FIXMEs
* Configurable slots per restore point
* Document new freezer DB functions
* Fix up StoreConfig
* Fix new test for merge
* Document SPRP default CLI flag, clarify tests