[#ChainstateManager-DeleteChainstate]
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Remove the chainstate and all on‐disk artifacts. Used when reindex{‐chainstate} is called during snapshot use.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<validation.h>`

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[[nodiscard, requires_capability(0x7f2e1bc17fd8), requires_capability(0x7f2e146b6328), requires_capability(0x7f2e298fb6f8), requires_capability(0x7f2e360b8e58)]]
bool
DeleteChainstate(xref:Chainstate.adoc[Chainstate]& chainstate);
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== Return Value

true if the chainstate and its artifacts were deleted successfully.

[NOTE]
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The return value https://en.cppreference.com/cpp/language/attributes/nodiscard[should not be discarded^].
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== Parameters

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| Name| Description
| *chainstate*
| The chainstate to remove and delete from disk.
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