Simplify handling of the timezone GUC by making initdb choose the default.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: ca4af308c32d03db5fbacb54d6e583ceb904f268
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2011-09-09T21:59:11Z
Releases: 9.2.0
Simplify handling of the timezone GUC by making initdb choose the default.

We were doing some amazingly complicated things in order to avoid running
the very expensive identify_system_timezone() procedure during GUC
initialization.  But there is an obvious fix for that, which is to do it
once during initdb and have initdb install the system-specific default into
postgresql.conf, as it already does for most other GUC variables that need
system-environment-dependent defaults.  This means that the timezone (and
log_timezone) settings no longer have any magic behavior in the server.
Per discussion.

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