[Snyk] Security upgrade pg from 7.8.0 to 8.4.0

[saurabharch]

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Snyk has created this PR to fix one or more vulnerable packages in the `npm` dependencies of this project.

Changes included in this PR

• Changes to the following files to upgrade the vulnerable dependencies to a fixed version:
  • package.json
  • package-lock.json

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed

With an upgrade:

Severity	Priority Score (*)	Issue	Breaking Change	Exploit Maturity
	658/1000 Why? Proof of Concept exploit, Recently disclosed, Has a fix available, CVSS 5.3	Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) SNYK-JS-SEMVER-3247795	Yes	Proof of Concept

(*) Note that the real score may have changed since the PR was raised.

Commit messages

Package name: pg

The new version differs by 250 commits.

• 7ffe68e Publish
• 125a268 Update changelog
• da2bb85 Bump node-fetch from 2.6.0 to 2.6.1
• 7649890 Update SPONSORS.md
• c5445f0 Fix metadata for pg-connection-string
• a02dfac Replace semver with optional peer dependencies
• 5825843 Public export of DatabaseError
• e421167 Add ssl=true into the test
• 9cbea21 Solve issues caused by config.ssl = true
• 6be3b90 Add support for ?sslmode connection string param
• f0fc470 Update README.md (#2330)
• 95b5daa Publish
• 1f0d3d5 Add test for pgpass check function scope
• 0758b76 Fix context (this) in _checkPgPass.
• acfbafa Publish
• 07ee1ba Bump version
• 65156e7 Small readme updates & auto-formatting
• 61e4b7f Merge pull request #2309 from chris--young/ssl-err
• f4d123b Prevents bad ssl credentials from causing a crash
• 316bec3 Merge pull request #2294 from charmander/test-fixes
• 3edcbb7 Fix most SSL negotiation packet tests being ignored
• 1b022f8 Remove accidentally duplicated methods
• b8773ce Merge pull request #2289 from brianc/dependabot/npm_and_yarn/lodash-4.17.19
• 692e418 Fix documenation typo in README (#2291)

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