So it reads the bitcoin main client's db and dumps it into a database.
Bitcoin's blockchain db has been switched to leveldb. Does it still work with this?
Also, 0.8 release has this in its notes
This release no longer maintains a full index of historical transaction ids
by default, so looking up an arbitrary transaction using the getrawtransaction
RPC call will not work. If you need that functionality, you must run once
with -txindex=1 -reindex=1 to rebuild block-chain indices (see below for more
details).
Is that a problem? Is the transaction index required?