State pruning (#216)

* Started work on state db

* Updated for a new hash type

* Pruning and tests

* Generalize on the block hash/key type

* Integrate with the client backend

* Merge w master

* CLI options

* Updated for light client refactoring

* Used IntoIterator

* Fixed invalid input hadling

substrate/polkadot/cli/src/cli.yml

@@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ args:
       value_name: CHAIN_SPEC
       help: Specify the chain specification (one of dev, local or poc-2)
       takes_value: true
+  - pruning:
+      long: pruning
+      value_name: PRUNING_MODE
+      help: Specify the pruning mode. (a number of blocks to keep or "archive"). Default is 256.
+      takes_value: true
   - name:
       long: name
       value_name: NAME

substrate/polkadot/cli/src/error.rs

@@ -28,5 +28,10 @@ error_chain! {
 		Client(client::error::Error, client::error::ErrorKind) #[doc="Client error"];
     }
 	errors {
+		/// Input error.
+		Input(m: String) {
+			description("Invalid input"),
+			display("{}", m),
+		}
 	}
 }

substrate/polkadot/cli/src/lib.rs

@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ use polkadot_primitives::Block;
 use futures::sync::mpsc;
 use futures::{Sink, Future, Stream};
 use tokio_core::reactor;
+use service::PruningMode;
 
 const DEFAULT_TELEMETRY_URL: &str = "ws://telemetry.polkadot.io:1024";
 
@@ -189,6 +190,12 @@ pub fn run<I, T>(args: I) -> error::Result<()> where
 		.into();
 
 	config.database_path = db_path(&base_path).to_string_lossy().into();
+	config.pruning = match matches.value_of("pruning") {
+		Some("archive") => PruningMode::ArchiveAll,
+		None => PruningMode::keep_blocks(256),
+		Some(s) => PruningMode::keep_blocks(s.parse()
+			.map_err(|_| error::ErrorKind::Input("Invalid pruning mode specified".to_owned()))?),
+	};
 
 	let (mut genesis_storage, boot_nodes) = PresetConfig::from_spec(chain_spec)
 		.map(PresetConfig::deconstruct)