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Efficient Consensus State Iteration #125

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This approach implements a backward compatible fix for efficient consensus state iteration without changing the host path, which is what the counterparty chain expects as the consensus state key.

  • Prune Consensus States
  • Enforce monotonic time (will address in subsequent PR)

closes: #XXXX


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return true
}
IterateConsensusStateAscending(clientStore, pruneCb)
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This will fetch earliest consensus state, we can implement pruning now without breaking changes.

Can similarly test for monotonic time as well

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I agree with the solution 👍 Clever fix!!

I do think this isn't a sustainable fix and is definitely a hack to support backwards compatibility. I think we should open a followup issue (or better yet, an ADR!) which explains in detail the sustainable fix so if IBC ever becomes non-backwards compatible we can be ready to swap out this solution for a more robust one that supports all light clients

I left various comments on areas for improvement in the code. I'd mostly like more code documentation explaining that this is a backwards compatible hack. I can see it being very confusing trying to understand why the code is constructed how it is and I think it is good to keep this code isolated so we can easily replace it when we are ready. The more it becomes entangled with existing logic, the harder it will be to replace. So we should have in code comments reminding us to keep it isolated

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This PR implements (minimal) consensus state pruning. Future PRs will address monotonic time as well as more complete pruning solution

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Codecov Report

Merging #125 (8b9dff1) into main (4e145d8) will increase coverage by 0.04%.
The diff coverage is 81.52%.

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...odules/light-clients/07-tendermint/types/update.go 77.65% <73.68%> (-1.01%) ⬇️
modules/light-clients/07-tendermint/types/store.go 83.83% <81.25%> (-4.74%) ⬇️
...light-clients/06-solomachine/types/client_state.go 66.33% <100.00%> (-4.03%) ⬇️

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LGTM, left some suggestions and nits

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csKey := iterator.Value()
bz := clientStore.Get(csKey)
if bz == nil {
return nil, false
}

consensusStateI, err := clienttypes.UnmarshalConsensusState(cdc, bz)
if err != nil {
return nil, false
}

consensusState, ok := consensusStateI.(*ConsensusState)
if !ok {
return nil, false
}
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these errors are also missing codecov, but I believe de duplicating logic from the existing GetConsensusState function could allow reusal of that test to ensure codecov

consState, err := GetConsensusState(clientStore, cdc, height)
// this error should never occur
if err != nil {
pruneError = err
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I think maybe we should wrap this error with some message that says "please open an issue". I wouldn't want a relayer to get this issue trying to debug it since really there'd need to be something really wrong

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Hmm should I just log and ignore the issue. If this is caught in wild, it would suck that no updates can happen because clientstore can't prune properly. It should still just revert to old updating logic, while we implement a fix since this is a nice-to-have and not critical for IBC functioning

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I'm ok with this. How do you plan to log the error?

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I could have used logger in context.

I decided against this because logging instead of returning error would make it easy for this to be missed in unit tests. I'd rather just ensure our test coverage makes us confident about this, rather than implementing with mistakes and not catching them until deployment

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Sounds like to correct decision to me. There is something severely wrong if this error occurs

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cwgoes commented Apr 23, 2021

This seems safe, but the extra layer of indirection is a bit wonky, I think we should try to implement a proper (backwards-incompatible) fix sometime in the future. Maybe it's worth keeping a list of "pending fixes" like this so we don't accumulate too technical debt and then lose track of what was necessary vs. what was merely done to avoid breaking backwards compatibility.

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This seems safe, but the extra layer of indirection is a bit wonky, I think we should try to implement a proper (backwards-incompatible) fix sometime in the future. Maybe it's worth keeping a list of "pending fixes" like this so we don't accumulate too technical debt and then lose track of what was necessary vs. what was merely done to avoid breaking backwards compatibility.

I very much agree. I've added a ibcv2 label as a start to keep track of issues that should be tackled when we are ready to do a backwards-incompatible fix

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Great work!! ACK pending CI fix and changelog entry

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