* Adding support for PostGIS geometry types
* Adding support for GEOMETRY, POLYGON and more in MySQL
* For all newly supported types, changes are represented using two new schema types Geometry and Geography, containing the WKB (binary geo data) ans srid (coord system identifier)
* The existing Point type also contains the new (optional) srid field
These new modules run during the '-Passembly' profile and use the new integration test framework that compares all
output produced by a connector to expected results that were previously recorded and verified. These integration test modules
can be run manually with a simple build of those modules or their parent; only the top-level 'integration-tests' module is run
during the assembly profile during builds of the entire codebase.
The Travis-CI builds run the Maven build using the `assembly` profile, and this has been failing quite a bit lately.
The first problem appears to be that the Travis-CI environment recently changed to have port 3306 taken, which means that our build fails to start any Docker containers for MySQL that attempt to use this port. A simple fix is to use different ports for the assembly build.
However, trying to change the port numbers for some of the profiles caused a lot of problems, and to correct these required refactoring how the properties are set. The Docker Maven plugin is now configured with separate properties that are set once (depending upon the profile) to determine the port assignments of the various Docker containers. The Failsafe plugin executions then use these Maven properties when setting the system variables (e.g., `database.host`) needed in the integration tests. This appears to have worked, but it still is a bit fragile. For example, the assembly profile defines several Failsafe executions, and during this profile these should be the only executions run; however, if not all the properties are set properly, the build seems to also run the default Failsafe execution in addition to the other `assembly` profile executions. (I think properties can’t only be defined in the execution, but need to also be defined in the Failsafe configuration.)
The “alternative” MySQL Docker images were removed, since they basically should not provide any different behavior than the `mysql/mysql-server` images we normally used. The extra containers required a lot more resources to run and dramatically increased the complexity of the build.
A few other trivial changes were made.
