Dont create pcoinsTip until after ReplayBlocks.

This requires that we not access pcoinsTip in InitBlockIndex's
FlushStateToDisk (so we just skip it until later in AppInitMain)
and the LoadChainTip in LoadBlockIndex (which there is already one
later in AppinitMain, after ReplayBlocks, so skipping it there is
fine).

Includes some simplifications by Suhas Daftuar and Pieter Wuille.

src/init.cpp

@@ -1385,7 +1385,6 @@ bool AppInitMain(boost::thread_group& threadGroup, CScheduler& scheduler)
                 pblocktree = new CBlockTreeDB(nBlockTreeDBCache, false, fReindex);
                 pcoinsdbview = new CCoinsViewDB(nCoinDBCache, false, fReindex || fReindexChainState);
                 pcoinscatcher = new CCoinsViewErrorCatcher(pcoinsdbview);
-                pcoinsTip = new CCoinsViewCache(pcoinscatcher);
 
                 if (fReindex) {
                     pblocktree->WriteReindexing(true);
@@ -1433,7 +1432,7 @@ bool AppInitMain(boost::thread_group& threadGroup, CScheduler& scheduler)
                     strLoadError = _("Unable to replay blocks. You will need to rebuild the database using -reindex-chainstate.");
                     break;
                 }
-                pcoinsTip->SetBestBlock(pcoinsdbview->GetBestBlock()); // TODO: only initialize pcoinsTip after ReplayBlocks
+                pcoinsTip = new CCoinsViewCache(pcoinscatcher);
                 LoadChainTip(chainparams);
 
                 if (!fReindex && chainActive.Tip() != NULL) {

src/txdb.cpp

@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ bool CCoinsViewDB::BatchWrite(CCoinsMap &mapCoins, const uint256 &hashBlock) {
     size_t changed = 0;
     size_t batch_size = (size_t)GetArg("-dbbatchsize", nDefaultDbBatchSize);
     int crash_simulate = GetArg("-dbcrashratio", 0);
+    assert(!hashBlock.IsNull());
 
     uint256 old_tip = GetBestBlock();
     if (old_tip.IsNull()) {
@@ -96,13 +97,6 @@ bool CCoinsViewDB::BatchWrite(CCoinsMap &mapCoins, const uint256 &hashBlock) {
         }
     }
 
-    if (hashBlock.IsNull()) {
-        // Initial flush, nothing to write.
-        assert(mapCoins.empty());
-        assert(old_tip.IsNull());
-        return true;
-    }
-
     // In the first batch, mark the database as being in the middle of a
     // transition from old_tip to hashBlock.
     // A vector is used for future extensibility, as we may want to support

src/validation.cpp

@@ -3420,7 +3420,6 @@ bool static LoadBlockIndexDB(const CChainParams& chainparams)
     pblocktree->ReadFlag("txindex", fTxIndex);
     LogPrintf("%s: transaction index %s\n", __func__, fTxIndex ? "enabled" : "disabled");
 
-    LoadChainTip(chainparams);
     return true;
 }
 
@@ -3783,8 +3782,6 @@ bool InitBlockIndex(const CChainParams& chainparams)
             CBlockIndex *pindex = AddToBlockIndex(block);
             if (!ReceivedBlockTransactions(block, state, pindex, blockPos, chainparams.GetConsensus()))
                 return error("LoadBlockIndex(): genesis block not accepted");
-            // Force a chainstate write so that when we VerifyDB in a moment, it doesn't check stale data
-            return FlushStateToDisk(chainparams, state, FLUSH_STATE_ALWAYS);
         } catch (const std::runtime_error& e) {
             return error("LoadBlockIndex(): failed to initialize block database: %s", e.what());
         }