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I see the following on the wiki but I dont understand the difference

pending: all processable transactions

queued: all non-processable transactions

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Look at the answer in What is the max size of transactions can clients like geth keep in txpool?

What is the difference between a pending transaction and a queued transaction?

Pending transactions are transactions that are ready to be processed and included in the block.

Queued transactions are transactions where the transaction nonce is not in sequence. The transaction nonce is an incrementing number for each transaction with the same From address.

For example:

Transaction from account 0xaaaa...aaaa with nonce 0 has been included in the blockchain. Transaction from account 0xaaaa...aaaa with nonce 1 has been included in the blockchain. 10 transactions from account 0xaaaa...aaaa with nonces 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 as sent to an Ethereum node. These are placed in the transaction queue as the transaction from account 0xaaaa...aaaa with nonce 2 has not been seen by the Ethereum node. Once the transaction from account 0xaaaa...aaaa with nonce 2 is added to the transaction pool, the 10 transactions with nonces 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 will be moved from the queue to the pending transaction pool and all 11 transactions are ready to be processed and inserted into into the blockchain (provided there is enough gas).

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  • Hi Badr! Could you please tell me if queued transactions with too high nonce are propagated to other nodes? I want to understand what happens with tx when I create tx with too high nonce. It's saved in a local queue, but do other nodes get the information about this tx? I don't know, can I remove it from the queue before it's mined and be sure that it won't be mined later by some node that received this tx before I removed it. I use parity if it's important.
    – Oroffe
    May 23 '20 at 22:55
  • Future transactions (queued due to nonconsecutive nonces) are not propagated. See openethereum.github.io/….
    – Ben Burns
    Jan 6 at 20:48

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