Alter schema: allow to drop map fields
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Description
### Feature Request / Improvement
It happens from time to time: we used a map field in the table and we stopped to use it and thus want to remove the field from the schema.
Currently this is not allowed with the following error:
```java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot delete map keys: map```
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