Archiving a Ledger Database

Prerequisites

• You are an audit administrator or a role that has the audit administrator permissions.
• The database is running properly, and a series of addition, deletion, and modification operations are performed on the tamper-proof database to ensure that operation records are generated in the ledger for query.
• The storage path audit_directory of audit files has been correctly configured in the database.

Context

• Currently, the ledger database provides two archiving interfaces: ledger_hist_archive(text… and ledger_gchain_archive(vo…. Only the audit administrator can invoke the ledger database interfaces.

• The interface for archiving the user history table is pg_catalog.ledger_hist_archive. To archive the table, run the following command:

  SELECT pg_catalog.ledger_hist_archive(schema_name text,table_name text);
  

  If the archiving is successful, the function returns t. Otherwise, the function returns f.

• The interface for archiving the global blockchain table is pg_catalog.ledger_gchain_archive. To archive the table, run the following command:

  SELECT pg_catalog.ledger_gchain_archive();
  

  If the archiving is successful, the function returns t. Otherwise, the function returns f.

Procedure

1. Archive a specified user history table.

   openGauss=# SELECT pg_catalog.ledger_hist_archive('ledgernsp', 'usertable');
   

   The command output is as follows:

    ledger_hist_archive
   ---------------------
    t
   (1 row)
   

   The user history table is archived as a record:

   openGauss=# SELECT * FROM blockchain.ledgernsp_usertable_hist;
    rec_num |     hash_ins     |     hash_del     |             pre_hash
   ---------+------------------+------------------+----------------------------------
          3 | e78e75b00d396899 | 8fcd74a8a6a4b484 | fd61cb772033da297d10c4e658e898d7
   (1 row)
   

   The command output indicates that the user history table of the current node is exported successfully.

2. Export the global blockchain table.

   openGauss=# SELECT pg_catalog.ledger_gchain_archive();
   

   The command output is as follows:

    ledger_gchain_archive
   -----------------------
    t
   (1 row)
   

   The global history table will be archived to n (number of user tables) data records by user table:

   openGauss=# SELECT * FROM gs_global_chain;
    blocknum |  dbname  | username |           starttime           | relid |  relnsp   |  relname  |     relhash      |            globalhash            | txcommand
   ----------+----------+----------+-------------------------------+-------+-----------+-----------+------------------+----------------------------------+-----------
           1 | postgres | libc     | 2021-05-10 19:59:38.619472+08 | 16388 | ledgernsp | usertable | 57c101076694b415 | be82f98ee68b2bc4e375f69209345406 | Archived.
   (1 row)
   

   The command output indicates that the global blockchain table of the current node is successfully exported.