Newer versions can't clear columns which are used in default expressions for other columns. Maybe it's caused by https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/6913

CH version 20.5.2


create database Temp;
create table Temp.Test (`impression_id` String,`impression_id_compressed` FixedString(16) DEFAULT UUIDStringToNum(substring(impression_id, 1, 36)), `impression_id_hashed` UInt16 DEFAULT reinterpretAsUInt16(impression_id_compressed), `event_date` Date ) ENGINE = MergeTree(event_date, impression_id_hashed, (event_date, impression_id_hashed), 8192);
alter table Temp.Test clear column `impression_id` in partition '202001';


Received exception from server (version 20.5.2):
Code: 44. DB::Exception: Received from ch7r1.local:9000. DB::Exception: Cannot drop column `impression_id`, because column `impression_id_compressed` depends on it. 




Older versions (tested with 19.17.4 and 20.3.5):

CREATE DATABASE Temp;
create table Temp.Test (`impression_id` String,`impression_id_compressed` FixedString(16) DEFAULT UUIDStringToNum(substring(impression_id, 1, 36)), `impression_id_hashed` UInt16 DEFAULT reinterpretAsUInt16(impression_id_compressed), `event_date` Date ) ENGINE = MergeTree(event_date, impression_id_hashed, (event_date, impression_id_hashed), 8192);
alter table Temp.Test clear column `impression_id` in partition '202001';

ALTER TABLE Temp.Test
    CLEAR COLUMN impression_id     IN PARTITION '202001'


Ok.

#include <Interpreters/ExpressionActions.h>
#include <Interpreters/addTypeConversionToAST.h>
#include <Interpreters/ExpressionAnalyzer.h>
#include <Interpreters/SyntaxAnalyzer.h>
#include <Interpreters/RenameColumnVisitor.h>
#include <Parsers/ASTAlterQuery.h>
#include <Parsers/ASTColumnDeclaration.h>
#include <Parsers/ASTConstraintDeclaration.h>
#include <Parsers/ASTExpressionList.h>
#include <Parsers/ASTFunction.h>
#include <Parsers/ASTIdentifier.h>
#include <Parsers/ASTIndexDeclaration.h>
#include <Parsers/ASTLiteral.h>
#include <Parsers/ASTSetQuery.h>
#include <Storages/AlterCommands.h>
#include <Storages/IStorage.h>
#include <Common/typeid_cast.h>
#include <Parsers/queryToString.h>
namespace DB
{
namespace ErrorCodes
{
    extern const int ILLEGAL_COLUMN;
    extern const int BAD_ARGUMENTS;
    extern const int NOT_FOUND_COLUMN_IN_BLOCK;
    extern const int LOGICAL_ERROR;
    extern const int DUPLICATE_COLUMN;
    extern const int NOT_IMPLEMENTED;
}
std::optional<AlterCommand> AlterCommand::parse(const ASTAlterCommand * command_ast, bool sanity_check_compression_codecs)