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Attempt to identify system timezone by reading /etc/localtime symlink.
On many modern platforms, /etc/localtime is a symlink to a file within the IANA database. Reading the symlink lets us find out the name of the system timezone directly, without going through the brute-force search embodied in scan_available_timezones(). This shortens the runtime of initdb by some tens of ms, which is helpful for the buildfarm, and it also allows us to reliably select the same zone name the system was actually configured for, rather than possibly choosing one of IANA's many zone aliases. (For example, in a system configured for "Asia/Tokyo", the brute-force search would not choose that name but its alias "Japan", on the grounds of the latter string being shorter. More surprisingly, "Navajo" is preferred to either "America/Denver" or "US/Mountain", as seen in an old complaint from Josh Berkus.) If /etc/localtime doesn't exist, or isn't a symlink, or we can't make sense of its contents, or the contents match a zone we know but that zone doesn't match the observed behavior of localtime(), fall back to the brute-force search. Also, tweak initdb so that it prints the zone name it selected. In passing, replace the last few references to the "Olson" database in code comments with "IANA", as that's been our preferred term since commit b2cbced9. Back-patch of commit 23bd3cec. The original intention was to not back-patch, since this can result in cosmetic behavioral changes --- for example, on my own workstation initdb now chooses "America/New_York", where it used to prefer "US/Eastern" which is equivalent and shorter. However, our hand has been more or less forced by tzdb update 2019a, which made the "UCT" zone fully equivalent to "UTC". Our old code now prefers "UCT" on the grounds of it being alphabetically first, and that's making nobody happy. Choosing the alias indicated by /etc/localtime is a more defensible behavior. (Users who don't like the results can always force the decision by setting the TZ environment variable before running initdb.) Patch by me, per a suggestion from Robert Haas; review by Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7408.1525812528@sss.pgh.pa.us Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190604085735.GD24018@msg.df7cb.de
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