[Bug 272502] databases/postgresql13-server: startup script not redirecting stdout, breaking Ansible

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=272502

            Bug ID: 272502
           Summary: databases/postgresql13-server: startup script not
                    redirecting stdout, breaking Ansible
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: pgsql@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: topical@gmx.net
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(pgsql@FreeBSD.org)
          Assignee: pgsql@FreeBSD.org

The startup script uses pg_ctl which forwards stdout from postgresql daemon to
parent process.

Since py39-ansible-core-2.15, the "service" module waits until stdout of
startup script is completely read. In our case, this will happen when the
postgresql daemon terminates, i.e. never and so the Ansible playbook is stuck.

According to pg_ctl, this is a feature. But in real life, the only messages you
get are

```
LOG:  ending log output to stderr
HINT:  Future log output will go to log destination "syslog".
```

So this feature is useless and makes trouble.

Either, pg_ctl must be fixed (which imho is unlikely as under Linux, usually
systemd is used which has no problem with that behaviour) or we must modify the
rc.d script to redirect stdout to /dev/null on startup.

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