Commit transaction before responding on Engine API #4506
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Consider the following scenario:
engine_newPayloadengine_forkchoiceUpdatedwithheadBlockHashpointing to the newly added blocketh_getBlockByNumber("latest")If we don't commit the DB transaction before replying to CL in 2, there's a race condition between 2 & 3 because in 3 we might be looking at the old
LastForkchoice.headBlockHash. That's why Hive test "Inconsistent Head in ForkchoiceState" was failing.