Add some notes about why "ALTER TYPE enum DROP VALUE" is hard.

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

Commit: af3ee8a086ca210d9461f813538d0169dbf07c2c
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2023-10-03T15:41:42Z
Releases: 17.0
Add some notes about why "ALTER TYPE enum DROP VALUE" is hard.

In hopes of putting these where any would-be implementer is sure to
find them, make a placeholder grammar production for ALTER DROP VALUE
and put them there.  This is really just a docs patch, though.

Vik Fearing, with a bit more wordsmithing by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9fffd149-da0f-0c9c-6745-731fb688642a@postgresfriends.org

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