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GitHub Pages serves .sqlite3 as application/octet-stream, which mime-db
marks compressible, so an un-ranged response comes back gzipped with the
compressed length. sql.js-httpvfs sizes a file with a HEAD request, sees
that length is unusable and refuses to open the database:

  Length of the file not known. It must either be supplied in the config
  or given by the HTTP server.

Page reads were never affected. The Fetch standard requires browsers to
send Accept-Encoding: identity on any request carrying a Range header,
and the live site returns 206 with raw bytes to one. So the length is
probed the same way and passed as fileLength, which is the escape hatch
the library's own message points at.

The probe reads the first 100 bytes, so it also checks the file starts
with the SQLite magic and that its page size matches the request size —
a host that ever compresses a ranged response now fails with a clear
message rather than feeding the library the wrong bytes.

The post-deploy check the docs prescribed could not have caught this: a
bare `curl -sI` advertises no encoding, so it reports success whatever
the host does. It is replaced, in the docs and in CI, by a ranged read
that verifies the bytes.
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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

  1. Checkout, Go toolchain, Node 24, npm ci in web/
  2. Parser, crawler and assembler test suites, web lint, govulncheck over all three modules
  3. 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/
  4. 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

  1. Put the Excel files in data/<id>/
  2. Add parser/configs/<id>.yml with the parse rules — sheet mode, column indices, SBD validation, header tokens, blank-row stripping. No SQL: the schema is canonical and lives in parser/internal/schema/schema.go
  3. Add an entry to datasets.json — id, expectedRows, dbSizeMb
  4. Add its presentation to CONTENT in web/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.

  • Pages does compress the databases, and that is survivable. .sqlite3 is unknown to Pages, so it is served as application/octet-stream, which is marked compressible in mime-db and gzipped: a plain request returns Content-Encoding: gzip and the compressed length. Ranged reads are not affected, because the Fetch standard makes browsers send Accept-Encoding: identity on any request carrying a Range header. Only the length probe breaks, and the site supplies fileLength itself instead of trusting HEAD — see web/src/lib/db-probe.js.

  • Verify the way a browser asks. A bare curl -sI advertises no encoding and so reports success whatever the host does; it is what let this reach production. Check ranged reads instead, and check the bytes, not the headers:

    curl -s -r 0-15 -H 'Accept-Encoding: identity;q=1, *;q=0' \
      https://<user>.github.io/thptqg/db/2016.sqlite3 | head -c 16
    # must print: SQLite format 3
    

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
Length of the file not known The host gzipped the un-ranged response, so HEAD reports the compressed size. The site supplies fileLength from a range probe; if this returns, that probe failed
Database fails to open A ranged read did not return raw database bytes. The range check above must print SQLite format 3
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