[#Chainstate-InitCoinsDB]
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Initialize the CoinsViews UTXO set database management data structures. The in‐memory cache is initialized separately.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<validation.h>`

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void
InitCoinsDB(
    size_t cache_size_bytes,
    bool in_memory,
    bool should_wipe);
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== Description

All parameters forwarded to CoinsViews.

== Parameters

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| Name| Description
| *cache_size_bytes*
| Size budget for the on‐disk coins database cache.
| *in_memory*
| Whether the database should be kept in memory only.
| *should_wipe*
| Whether to wipe any existing database contents.
|===


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