Nessie: re-enable time-travel functionality

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The changes in Iceberg/Nessie via #2588 (and Only accept NamedRefs in REST API) effectively removes time-travel functionality (due to reference-string-parsing restrictions). #1825 shall bring that back.

/cc @rymurr

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