As I discovered the hard way, these tests fail on the FTS because of
differences with psycopg2

Update the tests, and verify their passing, on the FTS
merge tjoneslo: As I discovered the hard way, these tests fail on the FTS because of

Merge pull request #1322 from tjoneslo/sql-layer/fix-varchar-previous-fixes
https://github.com/FoundationDB/sql-layer/pull/1322
Update POM dependencies to newest versions in Maven central.
Covers the cases that don't require any thought -- that is, not Jetty and Lucene, which have actually changed functionally.
merge MMcM: Update POM dependencies to newest versions in Maven central.

Merge pull request #1323 from MMcM/sql-layer/update-basic-pom-dependencies
https://github.com/FoundationDB/sql-layer/pull/1323