Depends on D20780. Ref T13403. During initial setup, it's routine to run "bin/config" with a bad database config. We start the stack in "config optional" mode to anticipate this.
However, even in this mode, we may emit warnings if the connection fails in certain ways. These warnings aren't useful; suppress them with "@".
(Possibly this message should move from "phlog()" to "--trace" at some point, but it has a certain amount of context/history around it.)