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    Attempt to identify system timezone by reading /etc/localtime symlink. · 23bd3cec
    Tom Lane authored
    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.
    
    Patch by me, per a suggestion from Robert Haas; review by Michael Paquier
    
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7408.1525812528@sss.pgh.pa.us
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