Added data format version 8 description

- Added a description for data format version 8 and its changes
- Increased timeout on error tests for FIXED types to reduce sporadic
timeout failures

Author: he-is-harry

lib/protocol/part/ConnectOptions.js

@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ function ConnectOptions() {
   // *  `5` Support for ST_GEOMETRY and ST_POINT
   // *  `6` Specifies to send the data type BINTEXT to the client
   // *  `7` Support for BOOLEAN
+  // *  `8` Support for FIXED8/12/16
   // TODO: Once implementation and testing for data format version 4 are
   // complete, replace dataFormatVersion and dataFormatVersion2 with the
   // commented-out lines.

test/acceptance/db.DataType.js

@@ -828,6 +828,8 @@ describe('db', function () {
       });
 
       it('should raise input type error', function (done) {
+        // Overflow validations are done one at a time, and some are done on the server, so this test can take longer
+        this.timeout(3000);
         var invalidTestData = [
           // Overflows 15 digit precision with 5 decimal places
           {value: '10000000000', errMessage: 'numeric overflow: Failed in "A" column with the value 10000000000.00000'},
@@ -862,6 +864,8 @@ describe('db', function () {
       });
 
       it('should raise input type error', function (done) {
+        // Same as before, some overflow validations are on the server, so this test can take longer
+        this.timeout(3000);
         var invalidTestData = [
           // Overflows 23 digit precision with 5 decimal places
           {value: '1000000000000000000', errMessage: 'numeric overflow: Failed in "A" column with the value 1000000000000000000.00000'},
@@ -899,6 +903,8 @@ describe('db', function () {
       });
 
       it('should raise input type error', function (done) {
+        // Same as before, some overflow validations are on the server, so this test can take longer
+        this.timeout(3000);
         var invalidTestData = [
           // Overflows 35 digit precision with 5 decimal places
           {