Added cli tool for pruning blockchain states #2083
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Description
This CLI tool allows us to prune historical states and preserve it for recent blocks. Number of recent blocks to preserve state of can be specified via
-b
/--numOfBlocks
.Note: this pr is still in draft mode.
Motivation and Context
Over time blockchain states db has been endlessly growing. This tool would allow to prune historical data, which in many cases is simply not needed.
Inspired by this PR.
How Has This Been Tested?
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