# Problem
The initial proposal ruled out implementing BigTable queries for
the `getBlockTime` RPC, but then it was implemented a couple months
later. Indicating that the functionality was never implemented in
the "implemented-proposals" document is a little confusing, so let's
bring the document in line with what actually happened. 🦾
# Summary of Changes
Remove the blurb about how `getBlockTime` was going to be deprecated
and add it to the list of calls that didn't yet support BigTable
queries at the time the proposal was written.
Allow u16::MAX to be specified for the instruction index. This makes it
possible to specify the current instruction, so it is not necessary to
know the instruction number.
Summary of Changes
Create a plugin mechanism in the accounts update path so that accounts data can be streamed out to external data stores (be it Kafka or Postgres). The plugin mechanism allows
Data stores of connection strings/credentials to be configured,
Accounts with patterns to be streamed
PostgreSQL implementation of the streaming for different destination stores to be plugged in.
The code comprises 4 major parts:
accountsdb-plugin-intf: defines the plugin interface which concrete plugin should implement.
accountsdb-plugin-manager: manages the load/unload of plugins and provide interfaces which the validator can notify of accounts update to plugins.
accountsdb-plugin-postgres: the concrete plugin implementation for PostgreSQL
The validator integrations: updated streamed right after snapshot restore and after account update from transaction processing or other real updates.
The plugin is optionally loaded on demand by new validator CLI argument -- there is no impact if the plugin is not loaded.
The program_id is not needed on "Program return data: " because it
always preceeded by the program invoke message, so no need to repeat
the program id. Also rename this to "Program return: " since "data"
is redundant.
Solang requires a method for verify ed25519 signatures. Add a new
builtin program at address Ed25519SigVerify111111111111111111111111111
which takes any number of ed25519 signature, public key, and message.
If any of the signatures fails to verify, an error is returned.
The changes for the web3.js package will go into another commit, since
the tests test against a released solana node. Adding web3.js ed25519
testing will break CI.
