The browser fetches this file one page per HTTP request, so the page size is the granularity of every read. At SQLite's 4 KiB default a row reached by an index seek dragged 4 KB across the network; at 1 KiB it drags 1 KB. A name search returns up to 100 scattered rows, so its row fetches fall from about 400 KB to about 100 KB. Measured on the rebuilt 2016 file: 6.3 rows share a page where 27 did. The index walks are sequential and unaffected in bytes — the library's read-ahead already collapses those into few requests. Cost is 4% file size: 2016 288.6 -> 302.4 MB, 2017 237.7 -> 247.3 MB, the site 528 -> 552 MB against the 1 GB GitHub Pages limit. Both sql.js-httpvfs and sqlite-wasm-http recommend this page size. The PRAGMA has to run before the DDL, since a page size is fixed once a table exists, and requestChunkSize on the client has to match or every page read spans two requests. Row counts unchanged and through the assembler guards; query plans re-checked and still index-driven on the rebuilt files.
4.8 KiB
Deployment Guide
Deploys to GitHub Pages via .github/workflows/deploy-pages.yml. Every push to
main rebuilds both datasets and redeploys the whole site.
One-time setup: Settings → Pages → Source: GitHub Actions.
What the workflow does
- Checkout, Go toolchain, Node 24,
npm ciinweb/ - Parser, crawler and assembler test suites, web lint,
govulncheckover all three modules go -C assembler run ./cmd/assemble— the whole pipeline: compile the parser, build and verify each database, compress it into.build/public/db/, run the web build, assemble_site/actions/upload-pages-artifact+actions/deploy-pages
The database build dominates the runtime: roughly 348 MB of Excel is parsed on every deploy.
Resulting URLs
https://<user>.github.io/thptqg/
https://<user>.github.io/thptqg/2016/
https://<user>.github.io/thptqg/2017/
/thptqg/2017/old/ and /thptqg/2017/old2/ were the pre-flattening URLs for
the two removed 2017 archives. They are no longer served; like any unknown path
they now render the hub via 404.html.
Local reproduction
(cd web && npm ci)
go -C assembler run ./cmd/assemble
npx serve _site
To rebuild a single dataset, or only the site:
go -C assembler run ./cmd/assemble db 2017
go -C assembler run ./cmd/assemble site
Base path
svelte.config.js sets paths.base: "/thptqg". If you fork under a different
repo name, update it to match — assets are referenced absolutely, so a mismatch
shows up as a blank page with 404s on /_app/....
Adding a dataset
- Put the Excel files in
data/<id>/ - Add
parser/configs/<id>.ymlwith the parse rules — sheet mode, column indices, SBD validation, header tokens, blank-row stripping. No SQL: the schema is canonical and lives inparser/internal/schema/schema.go - Add an entry to
datasets.json— id,expectedRows,dbSizeMb - Add its presentation to
CONTENTinweb/src/datasets.js
Nothing else. The assembler and the router both read the registry, and the frontend adapts to whichever columns the dataset populates. The last two steps check each other, so forgetting either fails rather than half-working.
Why no uncompressed database can ship
The assembler deletes the source once compression succeeds, so the raw file
does not survive the build, and it then fails the job if any .db,
.db-journal, .db-wal or .db-shm reached the output.
Both guards exist because the previous pipeline wrote a 100+ MB uncompressed
database into the source tree and relied on an rm step to keep it out of the
artifact — one missing line away from publishing it.
Notes
- The database is not cacheable across deploys. Every rebuild lays SQLite pages out differently, so the file changes even when the data does not. Only the pages a query touches are fetched, so this costs far less than it used to, but a deploy does invalidate what a returning visitor had cached.
- The 100 MB file limit is a Git limit, not a Pages one. It applies to files committed to a repository; the databases are built in CI and uploaded as a Pages artifact, and the documented Pages limits are a 1 GB published site and 100 GB/month of bandwidth, with no per-file figure. The two databases are 302 MB and 247 MB.
- Total artifact is about 552 MB, inside the 1 GB site limit but with less
headroom than before: a third dataset of this size would not fit. The fallback
is
sql.js-httpvfs's chunked mode, which splits a database into parts. - The server must not compress the databases. Ranges of a compressed body
address the wrong bytes, and the library refuses to open a file whose HEAD
carries a
Content-Encoding..sqlite3is an unknown type to Pages, so it is served asapplication/octet-streamand left alone — verify after a deploy.
Rollback
Deploys are stateless snapshots. Revert the commit on main and push; the next
run rebuilds the older state. There is no data to migrate.
Troubleshooting
| Symptom | Typical cause |
|---|---|
| Blank page, 404 on assets | paths.base in svelte.config.js does not match the repo name |
Failed to fetch database: 404 |
Dataset id in datasets.json does not match the file in db/ |
| A route 404s | The site step did not run, or the id is missing from datasets.json |
| Database fails to open | The host compressed it. curl -sI …/db/<id>.sqlite3 must show no content-encoding; ranges of a compressed body are unusable |
| Every query is slow or huge | It is not using an index. EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN it: a SCAN means the browser is fetching the whole table |
| Deploy fails on assembly | An uncompressed database artefact reached the output; the error names the files |
| Missing rows after a data update | Unknown Excel header — check the per-file row counts the parser prints |