2023 01 24 block sketch

[thedavidmeister]

Summary

sketches out

• structs for block/unblock
• hdk interface to it
• database table to track blocks
• reads/writes to block/unblock
• removes lossy timestamp handling for i64 micros in db

future work

• put things in and out of the database

TODO:

• CHANGELOG(s) updated with appropriate info
• Just before pressing the merge button, ensure new entries to CHANGELOG(s) are still under the UNRELEASED heading

[neonphog]

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[maackle]

Looks good. Also looks like most of the code here is to implement logic for time-bounded blocks. If that's fully done, I guess it will be helpful, otherwise I wonder if we need it?

[thedavidmeister]

Looks good. Also looks like most of the code here is to implement logic for time-bounded blocks. If that's fully done, I guess it will be helpful, otherwise I wonder if we need it?

@maackle yes it's fully done afaik, i tested all the scenarios that i thought of while working on it

[maackle]

We need to have a good dev script for printing out the current schema for each db, if we're not gonna have it committed to the repo.