Add the public facing documentation about the plugin framework: explaining the interface, how to load plugin and the example PostgreSQL plugin implementation.
Updated the rust documentation for the plugin interfaces for accounts and slot.
This changes are targeted for v1.8. Information about transactions will be updated later.
The TransactionNotifierInterface interface for notifying transactions.
Changes to transaction_status_service to notify the notifier of the transaction data.
Interface to query the plugin's interest in transaction data
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.
