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Type Alias: CheckpointKind

type CheckpointKind = "backfill" | Commitment;

Defined in: packages/overcast-core/src/storage/index.ts:280

Which indexer cursor a checkpoint belongs to: backfill plus one per tail, named after the Commitment it writes.

  • backfill — the historical sweep's descending paging cursor ("lowest point swept so far"), advanced page by page towards the start checkpoint.
  • live / finalized — a tail's ascending frontier ("newest head fully swept"), advanced after each sweep. live is reorg-able, finalized canonical.