Txindex issue

Question

Hi, if i start a blockchain without using the txindex and then start again with txindex the blockchain gets corrupted. A ask question comes up to reindex the chain, but whether one answers Y/N the blockchain gets corrupted.

e.g. multichaind bc -daemon, multichaind bc -daemon -txindex=1

Answer 1

Thanks for reporting this. We will look into the issue for the next alpha. In the meantime I recommend setting txindex=1 in the runtime parameters before the node starts running. We should probably even make this the default behavior since it's very useful for development.