PGConf.Russia 2018

The speaker will share his experience of transferring high-loaded game projects that were originally developed to work with MySQL into PostgreSQL. Problems that had been expected and ones that were actually faced. Tricky bugs that were found in production servers after the migration. Solutions that were used to deal with problems. PostgreSQL features that were very useful and desirable ones that were missing.

For over 15 years JetBrains have strived to make effective developer tools. IntelliJ IDEA for java is the most popular of them. IntelliJ supports databases as well, and finally we in JetBrains decided to bring this functionality and our experience in programming languages to the world of SQL. That’s how DataGrip appeared. In my talk I will tell how DataGrip helps developers by automating routine checks and corrections and speeds up developer’s production. I will also show how to extend IDE’s functionality and try to understand which actual problems we can solve in future.

This talk explores the ways attackers with no authorized database access can steal Postgres passwords, see database queries and results, and even intercept database sessions and return false data. Postgres supports features to eliminate all of these threats, but administrators must understand the attack vulnerabilities to protect against them. This talk covers all known Postgres external attack methods.