Well ain't I a lamer... Does not seem that long since I toyed with MongoDB on SmartOS but Mongo has dropped support since 2017.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/29/mongodb_quits_solaris/
Fsck'ing Penguinistas. Too bad, too sad that their junior devs weren't smart enough to pick up a bit of real Unix.
Sure, I could spin up a Linux vm, but I already been there, done that and there are good reasons I prefer SmartOS (yeah, even over fbsd server side).
Thankfully NodeBB devs are NOT asshats and offer me options so I am off to test out the pgsql stuff.
Thanks bunches for all the discussion. Very informative and very much appreciated.
P.S.; any infos on pgsql versions? Docs just say 9.5+ but that was long ago and the need for new maintainer was mentioned so I wonder if post 9.x major revs are "supported"?