Improve initdb's query for generating default descriptions a little.
While poking into initdb's performance, I noticed that this query wasn't being done very intelligently. By forcing it to execute obj_description() for each pg_proc/pg_operator join row, we were essentially setting up a nestloop join to pg_description, which is not a bright query plan when there are hundreds of outer rows. Convert the check for a "deprecated" operator into a NOT EXISTS so that it can be done as a hashed antijoin. On my workstation this reduces the time for this query from ~ 35ms to ~ 10ms. Which is not a huge win, but it adds up over buildfarm runs. In passing, insert forced query breaks (\n\n, in single-user mode) after each SQL-query file that initdb sources, and after some relatively new queries in setup_privileges(). This doesn't make a lot of difference normally, but it will result in briefer, saner error messages if anything goes wrong.
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