Failed pkg install should not corrupt the local meta database...

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pkg install failed while wifi was unavailable momentarily. It was required to rebuild the database via pkg upgrade. If DNS is unavailable, pkg should not corrupt its database.

% doas pkg install postgresql96-server                                                                                                                     
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...                                                                                                                                    
pkg: repository meta /var/db/pkg/FreeBSD.meta has wrong version or wrong format                                                                                             
pkg: Repository FreeBSD load error: meta cannot be loaded No such file or directory                                                                                         
pkg: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/meta.txz: No address record                                                                                             
repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings                                                                                                                 
Fetching packagesite.txz: 100%    6 MiB 144.7kB/s    00:44                                                                                                                  
pkg: repository meta /var/db/pkg/FreeBSD.meta has wrong version or wrong format                                                                                             
pkg: Repository FreeBSD load error: meta cannot be loaded No such file or directory                                                                                         
Unable to open created repository FreeBSD                                                                                                                                   
Unable to update repository FreeBSD                                                                                                                                         
Error updating repositories!                                                                                                                                                
Exit 3                                                                                                                                                                      
% doas pkg install -U postgresql96-server                                                                                                                  
pkg: repository meta /var/db/pkg/FreeBSD.meta has wrong version or wrong format                                                                                             
pkg: Repository FreeBSD load error: meta cannot be loaded No such file or directory                                                        
pkg: Repository FreeBSD cannot be opened. 'pkg update' required                                                                  
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'postgresql96-server' have been found in the repositories                       
Exit 70                                                                                                                          
% doas pkg update                                                                                                    
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...                                                                                          
pkg: repository meta /var/db/pkg/FreeBSD.meta has wrong version or wrong format                                                     
pkg: Repository FreeBSD load error: meta cannot be loaded No such file or directory                                                          
Fetching meta.txz: 100%    940 B   0.9kB/s    00:01                                                                               
Fetching packagesite.txz: 100%    6 MiB 151.5kB/s    00:42                                                                                                                 
Processing entries: 100%                                                                                                                                                   
FreeBSD repository update completed. 31365 packages processed.                                                                                                             
All repositories are up to date.