Works around a flaw in the upgrade logic of the system contracts. Since
they are updated directly, without first being self-destructed and then
re-created, the usual incarnation logic does not get activated, and all
historical records of the code of these contracts are retrieved as the
most recent version. This problem will not exist in erigon3, but until
then, a workaround will be used to access code of such contracts through
a special structure, `SystemContractCodeLookup`
Fixes https://github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon/issues/5865
Co-authored-by: Alexey Sharp <alexeysharp@Alexeys-iMac.local>
So there is an issue with tracing certain blocks/transactions on
Polygon, for example:
```
> '{"method": "trace_transaction","params":["0xb198d93f640343a98f90d93aa2b74b4fc5c64f3a649f1608d2bfd1004f9dee0e"],"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}'
```
gives the error `first run for txIndex 1 error: insufficient funds for
gas * price + value: address 0x10AD27A96CDBffC90ab3b83bF695911426A69f5E
have 16927727762862809 want 17594166808296934`
The reason is that this transaction is from the author of the block,
which doesn't have enough ETH to pay for the gas fee + tx value if he's
not the block author receiving transactions fees.
The issue is that currently the APIs are using `ethash.NewFaker()`
Engine for running traces, etc. which doesn't know how to get the author
for a specific block (which is consensus dependant); as it was noting in
several TODO comments.
The fix is to pass the Engine to the BaseAPI, which can then be used to
create the right Block Context. I chose to split the current Engine
interface in 2, with Reader and Writer, so that the BaseAPI only
receives the Reader one, which might be safer (even though it's only
used for getting the block Author).
Following our previous discussion on erigon's discord, this PR requests
to upstream all Otterscan modifications to erigon's repo.
That decision comes after getting feedback from lots of users at events
this year, and although it may introduce some friction for development,
it will make integrators life easier by having all our modifications
available out of box, e.g., dappnode users will get our RPCs since their
official packages are built from erigon repo.
I'm submitting the source-code as-is, please let me know if you think
there is a better code organization.
The current set of modifications comprises only new RPCs. There are some
proposals for extra-stages that would add new tables, but they are still
WIP and will be submitted separately in future after more testing.
