**Describe the situation**

Currently it does not:

```
milovidov-desktop :) EXPLAIN SYNTAX SELECT sum(cityHash64(*)) AS x FROM test.hits WHERE URLDomain LIKE '%metrika%'

EXPLAIN SYNTAX
SELECT sum(cityHash64(*)) AS x
FROM test.hits
WHERE URLDomain LIKE '%metrika%'

Query id: a752ed76-a71c-4e26-96c1-1b081abfc539

┌─explain────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ SELECT sum(cityHash64(WatchID, JavaEnable, Title, GoodEvent, EventTime, EventDate, CounterID, ClientIP, ClientIP6, RegionID, UserID, CounterClass, OS, UserAgent, URL, Referer, URLDomain, RefererDomain, Refresh, IsRobot, RefererCategories, URLCategories, URLRegions, RefererRegions, ResolutionWidth, ResolutionHeight, ResolutionDepth, FlashMajor, FlashMinor, FlashMinor2, NetMajor, NetMinor, UserAgentMajor, UserAgentMinor, CookieEnable, JavascriptEnable, IsMobile, MobilePhone, MobilePhoneModel, Params, IPNetworkID, TraficSourceID, SearchEngineID, SearchPhrase, AdvEngineID, IsArtifical, WindowClientWidth, WindowClientHeight, ClientTimeZone, ClientEventTime, SilverlightVersion1, SilverlightVersion2, SilverlightVersion3, SilverlightVersion4, PageCharset, CodeVersion, IsLink, IsDownload, IsNotBounce, FUniqID, HID, IsOldCounter, IsEvent, IsParameter, DontCountHits, WithHash, HitColor, UTCEventTime, Age, Sex, Income, Interests, Robotness, GeneralInterests, RemoteIP, RemoteIP6, WindowName, OpenerName, HistoryLength, BrowserLanguage, BrowserCountry, SocialNetwork, SocialAction, HTTPError, SendTiming, DNSTiming, ConnectTiming, ResponseStartTiming, ResponseEndTiming, FetchTiming, RedirectTiming, DOMInteractiveTiming, DOMContentLoadedTiming, DOMCompleteTiming, LoadEventStartTiming, LoadEventEndTiming, NSToDOMContentLoadedTiming, FirstPaintTiming, RedirectCount, SocialSourceNetworkID, SocialSourcePage, ParamPrice, ParamOrderID, ParamCurrency, ParamCurrencyID, GoalsReached, OpenstatServiceName, OpenstatCampaignID, OpenstatAdID, OpenstatSourceID, UTMSource, UTMMedium, UTMCampaign, UTMContent, UTMTerm, FromTag, HasGCLID, RefererHash, URLHash, CLID, YCLID, ShareService, ShareURL, ShareTitle, `ParsedParams.Key1`, `ParsedParams.Key2`, `ParsedParams.Key3`, `ParsedParams.Key4`, `ParsedParams.Key5`, `ParsedParams.ValueDouble`, IslandID, RequestNum, RequestTry)) AS x │
│ FROM test.hits                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             │
│ PREWHERE URLDomain LIKE '%metrika%'                                                                                                                                                                                                                        │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

3 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.004 sec. 

milovidov-desktop :) EXPLAIN SYNTAX SELECT sum(cityHash64(*)) AS x FROM merge(test, '^hits$') WHERE URLDomain LIKE '%metrika%'

EXPLAIN SYNTAX
SELECT sum(cityHash64(*)) AS x
FROM merge(test, '^hits$')
WHERE URLDomain LIKE '%metrika%'

Query id: fb059673-7da1-4cf4-9713-e5c7b9feb66d

┌─explain────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ SELECT sum(cityHash64(WatchID, JavaEnable, Title, GoodEvent, EventTime, EventDate, CounterID, ClientIP, ClientIP6, RegionID, UserID, CounterClass, OS, UserAgent, URL, Referer, URLDomain, RefererDomain, Refresh, IsRobot, RefererCategories, URLCategories, URLRegions, RefererRegions, ResolutionWidth, ResolutionHeight, ResolutionDepth, FlashMajor, FlashMinor, FlashMinor2, NetMajor, NetMinor, UserAgentMajor, UserAgentMinor, CookieEnable, JavascriptEnable, IsMobile, MobilePhone, MobilePhoneModel, Params, IPNetworkID, TraficSourceID, SearchEngineID, SearchPhrase, AdvEngineID, IsArtifical, WindowClientWidth, WindowClientHeight, ClientTimeZone, ClientEventTime, SilverlightVersion1, SilverlightVersion2, SilverlightVersion3, SilverlightVersion4, PageCharset, CodeVersion, IsLink, IsDownload, IsNotBounce, FUniqID, HID, IsOldCounter, IsEvent, IsParameter, DontCountHits, WithHash, HitColor, UTCEventTime, Age, Sex, Income, Interests, Robotness, GeneralInterests, RemoteIP, RemoteIP6, WindowName, OpenerName, HistoryLength, BrowserLanguage, BrowserCountry, SocialNetwork, SocialAction, HTTPError, SendTiming, DNSTiming, ConnectTiming, ResponseStartTiming, ResponseEndTiming, FetchTiming, RedirectTiming, DOMInteractiveTiming, DOMContentLoadedTiming, DOMCompleteTiming, LoadEventStartTiming, LoadEventEndTiming, NSToDOMContentLoadedTiming, FirstPaintTiming, RedirectCount, SocialSourceNetworkID, SocialSourcePage, ParamPrice, ParamOrderID, ParamCurrency, ParamCurrencyID, GoalsReached, OpenstatServiceName, OpenstatCampaignID, OpenstatAdID, OpenstatSourceID, UTMSource, UTMMedium, UTMCampaign, UTMContent, UTMTerm, FromTag, HasGCLID, RefererHash, URLHash, CLID, YCLID, ShareService, ShareURL, ShareTitle, `ParsedParams.Key1`, `ParsedParams.Key2`, `ParsedParams.Key3`, `ParsedParams.Key4`, `ParsedParams.Key5`, `ParsedParams.ValueDouble`, IslandID, RequestNum, RequestTry)) AS x │
│ FROM merge('test', '^hits$')                                                                                                                                                                                                                               │
│ WHERE URLDomain LIKE '%metrika%'                                                                                                                                                                                                                           │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

Most likely because Merge table does not provide column sizes info.
We can provide it either:
- by iterating and summing across all tables;
- only for first N = 10 tables in case if the number of tables is very large.
MultiVersionStorageMetadataPtr metadata;
protected:
    RWLockImpl::LockHolder tryLockTimed(
        const RWLock & rwlock, RWLockImpl::Type type, const String & query_id, const std::chrono::milliseconds & acquire_timeout) const;
public:
    
    
    
    
    TableLockHolder lockForShare(const String & query_id, const std::chrono::milliseconds & acquire_timeout);
    
    
    using AlterLockHolder = std::unique_lock<std::timed_mutex>;
    AlterLockHolder lockForAlter(const std::chrono::milliseconds & acquire_timeout);
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    TableExclusiveLockHolder lockExclusively(const String & query_id, const std::chrono::milliseconds & acquire_timeout);
    /** Returns stage to which query is going to be processed in read() function.
      * (Normally, the function only reads the columns from the list, but in other cases,
      *  for example, the request can be partially processed on a remote server, or an aggregate projection.)
      *
      * SelectQueryInfo is required since the stage can depends on the query
      * (see Distributed() engine and optimize_skip_unused_shards,
      *  see also MergeTree engine and allow_experimental_projection_optimization).
      * And to store optimized cluster (after optimize_skip_unused_shards).