Introduce API for directly importing the state into the database #8691

Job	Run time
preflight / preflight	46s
preflight / ci-versions	58s
cargo-check-benches (master)	20m 45s
cargo-check-benches (current)	24m 1s
cargo-check-all-crate-macos	11m 29s
cargo-check-each-crate (1)	17m 41s
test-frame-ui	27m 20s
cargo-check-each-crate (2)	22m 34s
test-full-crypto-feature	2m 25s
cargo-check-each-crate (3)	7m 42s
cargo-check-each-crate (4)	20m 16s
test-node-metrics	10m 53s
cargo-check-each-crate (5)	28m 39s
cargo-check-each-crate (6)	14m 11s
cargo-check-each-crate (7)	31m 15s
test-frame-examples-compile-to-wasm	2m 55s
test-deterministic-wasm	6m 8s
check-tracing	2m 16s
check-metadata-hash	5m 58s
node-bench-regression-guard	17s
All test misc tests passed	1s
	4h 18m 30s

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