Grafana Backend: Establish a database version support policy. (#54374) (#54506)

As stated in the documentation, Grafana will support the versions of our backend database options that are supported by their projects at the time that a Grafana release is issued.

(cherry picked from commit 56369457d4)

Co-authored-by: Joe Blubaugh <joe.blubaugh@grafana.com>
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@@ -49,13 +49,15 @@ Grafana requires a database to store its configuration data, such as users, data
Grafana supports the following databases:
- SQLite
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- [SQLite 3](https://www.sqlite.org/index.html)
- [MySQL 5.7+](https://www.mysql.com/support/supportedplatforms/database.html)
- [PostgreSQL 10+](https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/)
By default, Grafana installs with and uses SQLite, which is an embedded database stored in the Grafana installation location.
> **Note:** PostgreSQL versions 9.5.18, 9.4.23, 9.6.14, 10.9, 11.4, and 12-beta2 are affected by a bug (tracked by the PostgreSQL project as [bug #15865](https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/15865-17940eacc8f8b081%40postgresql.org)) which prevents those versions from being used with Grafana. The bug has been fixed in more recent versions of PostgreSQL.
Grafana will support the versions of these databases that are officially supported by the project at the time of a Grafana version's release. When a version becomes unsupported, Grafana may also drop support for that version. See the links above for the support policies for each project.
> **Note:** PostgreSQL versions 10.9, 11.4, and 12-beta2 are affected by a bug (tracked by the PostgreSQL project as [bug #15865](https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/15865-17940eacc8f8b081%40postgresql.org)) which prevents those versions from being used with Grafana. The bug has been fixed in more recent versions of PostgreSQL.
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