doc: clarify aliasing of VALUES in FROM clauses

The VALUES reference page said that an AS clause was required when
VALUES is used in a FROM clause. This was imprecise because AS is
optional when specifying an alias.

In v14 and v15, a table alias is still required in this case, so state
that explicitly instead. In v16 and later, commit bcedd8f5fce made table
aliases for subqueries in FROM clauses optional, so state that the
table alias is optional there. In all branches, continue to recommend
explicit column aliases as good practice.

Backpatch to all supported versions.

Author: Ian Barwick <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <[email protected]>
Discussion: 
https://postgr.es/m/CAB8KJ=jrvzdnllhysicgbjltz2lkejyw+-hvqkaf+kgk61k...@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14

Branch
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REL_15_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b6d2d82871c3dee3508c67a3b17ed4356654c036

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/ref/values.sgml | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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