Description of change

Port upstream change: Make most interactions with the db panic on failure instead of returning Result (#20291) MystenLabs/sui@9f617ef (PR: MystenLabs/sui#20291)

Links to any relevant issues

Fixes #7186

Type of change

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• Enhancement (a non-breaking change which adds functionality)

How the change has been tested

CI, local network

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• Basic tests (linting, compilation, formatting, unit/integration tests)
• Patch-specific tests (correctness, functionality coverage)

Infrastructure QA (only required for crates that are maintained by @iotaledger/infrastructure)

• Synchronization of the indexer from genesis for a network including migration objects.
• Restart of indexer synchronization locally without resetting the database.
• Restart of indexer synchronization on a production-like database.
• Deployment of services using Docker.
• Verification of API backward compatibility.

Change checklist

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• I have followed the contribution guidelines for this project
• I have performed a self-review of my own code
• I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
• I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
• I have checked that new and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes

Release Notes

• Protocol:
• Nodes (Validators and Full nodes):
• Indexer:
• JSON-RPC:
• GraphQL:
• CLI:
• Rust SDK:
• REST API: