On Sun, 26 Oct 2025, Greg Troxel wrote:
MESSAGE is abusive here; there is no permanent problem or damage, just pgsql not running. This belongs in README.NetBSD. PostgreSQL is very much a huge package where people are expected to read the documentation and we should not promote a culture where people blow that off and then try to save them from themselves.
I would say pgsql not running is very much a permanent problem that would warrant having a MESSAGE. Yes, I know the implementation of MESSAGE is flawed but still -- we could have both README.NetBSD and MESSAGE.
-- Benny