issue #24559 - locking with pg 9.3 and web vs qt clients

This set of commits does several things:
- fix our lock/unlock code to handle changes in the system catalogs for Postgres 9.2
- temporarily short-circuit application locks so the desktop client uses advisory locks while the web client uses the xt.lock table
- make loading a different version of Postgres easier
- address #1846 (install of npm vs npm modules) (required to get a functional vm)
- possibly fix the "missing plv8" error (required to get a functional db)

tested with Postgres 9.1 and 9.3 using a combination of qt and web clients
Why not just delete this file? We can always grab it from history when we want it back.